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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • sawamaki_456@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "saki wazi" <saki_wazi02@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: sawamaki_456@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:39:59 +0000
Subject: please reply immediately and confidential

FROM MALLAM .SARAKI WAZIRI.
ACCOUNTANT GENERAL
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO

ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL(sawamaki_456@yahoo.com )

Dear Friend;

I am mallam saraki waziri, ACCOUNTANT GENERAL of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I have an urgent and very confidential business
proposition for you.
I honestly apologist and hope I don’t cause you much embarrassment by
contacting you through this means for a transaction of this magnitude, but
this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.

In June, 1999, a German property consultant and Director of a business
school ,Mr. Kurt Kahle made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve
calendar months, valued at US$20,000,000.00(twenty Million United States
Dollars only) in my branch bank. It was to our utter surprise that we heard
of his death, wife and children in an AF4590 plane crash in July 2000. See
website below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL,
and hitherto, all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. Mr. Kurt
Kahle was residing at No 1 Rue de Nelson Mandela, G.R.A. Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Kurt Kahle
did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of
US$20,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

No one will ever come forward to claim it. Consequently, my proposal is that
I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or business
partner to Mr. Kurt Kahle so that the fruits of this old man's labour will
not get into the hands of some corrupt executive director officials of the
bank.

We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and autharization
of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of
probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.The money will be
paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 65% for me and 30%
for you and 5% for Expenses Incurred in the course of the transaction.


This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and
address, phone and fax numbers so that the attorney will prepare the
necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of
kin or business partner.

Your role in the transaction is to send an application for claim of the
funds to our bank. Then, as top officials of the bank, I shall work
behind-the-scene to make sure that your application is approved by the
management of the bank, and the funds transferred to your nominated bank
account.

Please note that there is no atom of risks at all as all the paperwork for
this transaction will be done legitimately and with my positions as top
officials of the bank would ensure a successful execution of this
transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately to my
alternative email box. Sawamaki_456@yahoo.com

Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication. You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this
transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable
for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in
your country.

I look forward to your anticipation and prompt response.

Thanks and regards.
Mallam saraki waziri

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