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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:

• 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)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "aziz bangoura" <aziz_banguora6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: aziz_bangoura1@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:56:49 +0000
Subject: Mr.AZIZ BANGOURA.(Bill and Exhange Manager)

Dear friend,

(I am Mr AZIZ BANGOURA, From Ouagadougou Burkina Faso) I know that this
letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your address through Burkina
Faso chambers and commerce.I must apologise for taking some of your valuable
time to explain a proposal, that I believe will be of utmost benefit to us.
I need your help and urgent assistance in transfering the sum of $25,600
000.00 USD(Twentyfive Million,Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars)to your
account immediately, the fund belongs to one of our foreign customer who
died along with his surposed next of kin in a war zone liberia on 15/6/2001.

Our bank banking law and guideline stipulated that if such money remains
unclaimed after five years the money will be transfered into the bank
treasurere as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner to be next of kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to make this type of
claim.

The five years will complete by ending of this year,that is why I and my two
workers in my department want to release the money to you as the nearest
person to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for the claim because we don't want the fund to go into our Bank
treasurere as unclaimed money. we will give you 25% of the total sum for
the provision of foreign account and 70%will be for us while 5% will be set
aside for any mislenious expenses incurred during the business.

This transaction is 100% risk-free on both side and has no atom of
negativity,for we have made all required arrangement for the transfer of
this fund to your account. Please we would like you to keep this transaction
very confidential as you may wish to know that we are Bank officials.

I will send you more details as soon as i get a positive reply from you.

Mr.AZIZ BANGOURA.(Bill and Exhange Manager)

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