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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)
  • "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: MR_DAGOZE OKEIJI <mr_dagozie18@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:11:13 +0200
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU THANKS



I AM ,MR.DAGOZE OKENIJI, THEEXCHANGE MANAGEROF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB).OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.MOBILE NUMBER:(+226 76 42 02 24). Dear Friend,
How are you doing today , first i will explain my self a little to you before we continue.
I am Mr. Dagoze Okeniji, the Exchange Manager, at the foreign remittance department OF, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) .
My massage should not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life.
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of ($21,300,000.00 ) UNITED STATES DOLLARS , So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary and legit to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased costomer.
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died, IN A PLANE CRASH BEING MR. PAUL WELLSTONE, in 25th October 2002.
Upon the successful transfer of this funds into your bank account, I accept to give you Thirty nine Percent (39%),It will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the transfer of the fund into your account and provision of the bank account where the bank will remit the fund into,Fifty two Percent (52%) will be for me as the rest %9 will be shared to Charity Organisations, Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless people that surrounded us around the World.
Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free (etc etc blah) I expect your urgent communication and my best regard to you and all members of your familys.
Youros faithfully,
MR . DAGOZE OKENIJI.

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