419 scam: Mohamed Waleed <m.waleed48@sify.com> Urgent

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mohamed Waleed <m.waleed48@sify.com>
Reply-To: mohamedwaleed90@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:53:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Urgent

>From Mr Mohamed Waleed
Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
West Africa.

Dear Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your contact address from Burkina Faso chamber of commerce while i was searching for somebody that has similar name with our deceased customer.

I am the manager of bill and exchange Bank of Africa (B.O.A) at Foreign Remittance Department.There is a business I would want you to champion for me.In my department we discovered an abbandoned sum of(US$31.500.000.00) Thirty One Million Five Hundred Thousands US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 11th September 2003 in a plane crash.

Unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin's or relation died along
side with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I donât want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

I agreed that 20 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in the respect of the provision of a foreign account,and 10 % will be set aside for the expenses incured during this business and 70 % would be for me.Thereafter,i will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.

Therefore,to enable the transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must first apply to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your Bank name,your Bank account number,your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the fund will be remitted.

All modalities of this transaction have been carefully worked out and once started will not take more than Fourteen working days to complete the transfer process with your full support.This transaction is 100% risk free,it involve no any implication and no precaution thereafter.Upon receipt of your reply,i will send you by fax or email the text of transfer application form which you will fill and send to the Bank.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free,that you should not entertain any atom of fear as required arrangement has been made already for the succesful transfer of this fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hearing from you immediately.

Yours faithfully
Mohamed Waleed

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