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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • tanja_hamed0044@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "tanja hamed" <tanja92@latinmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:30:38 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED


FROM THE DESK OF DR TANJA HAMED
BILL AND EXCHANGE FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA ( BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO ,


DEAR FRIENDD=20

COMPLIMENTS,

I AM THE MANAGER OF BILL AND EXCHANGE AT THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE
DEPARTMENT OF BANK OF AFRICA.
I AM WRITTING TO SEEK YOUR COPERATION OVER THIS BUSINESSDEAL.IN MY
DEPARTMENT, I DISCOVERED AN ABANDONED SUM OF $21MILLION USD(TWENTY
ONE MILLION US DOLLARS)ONLY , IN ANACCOUNT THAT BELONGS TO ONE OF
OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS WHO DIED ALONG WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IN A
PLANE CRASH THAT TOOK PLACE IN KENYA,EAST AFRICA,THE LATE DR. GEORGE
BRUMLEY,A CITIZEN OF ATLANTA,UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BUT
NATURALISED IN BURKINAFASO,WEST AFRICA AND CONTRACTOR WITH
ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES) .

SINCE WE GOT INFORMATION ABOUT HIS DEATH, WE HAVE BEEN EXPECTING HIS
NEXT OF KIN TO COME OVER AND CLAIM HIS MONEY BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE
RELEASED UNLESS SOMEBODY APPLIES FOR IT AS NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION
TO THE DECEASED AS INDICATED IN OUR BANKING GUIDELINES BUT
UNFORTUNATELY , ALL HIS SUPPOSED NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION DIED
ALONGSIDE WITH HIM AT THE PLANE CRASH LEAVING NOBODY BEHIND FOR THE
CLAIM. IT IS THEREFORE UPON THIS DISCOVERY THAT I NOW DECIDED TO
MAKE THIS BUSINNESS PROPOSAL TO YOU AND RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU VIA
YOUR FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNT AS THE NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION TO THE
DECEASED FOR SAFETY AND SUBSEQUENT DISBURSEMENT SINCE NOBODY IS
COMING FOR IT AND THIS MONEY COULD GO INTO THE BANK TREASURY AS
UNCLAIMED BILL.

THE BANKING LAW AND GUIDELINE HERE STIPULATES THAT IF SUCH MONEY
REMAINED UNCLAIMED AFTER FIVE YEARS, THE MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERED
INTO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED FUND.THE REQUEST FOR YOUR
ASSISTANCE AND MAXIMUM CO-OPERATION AS A FOREIGN CITIZEN TO STAND AS
THE NEXT OF KIN IN THIS BUSINESS IS OCCASIONED BY THE FACT THAT THE
DECEASED CUSTOMER WAS A FOREIGNER AND A BURKINABE CANNOT STAND AS
NEXT OF KIN TO AFOREIGNER.

40 % OF THIS MONEY WILL BE FOR YOU AS MY FOREIGN PARTNER,INRESPECT
TO THE PROVISION OF A FOREIGN ACCOUNT. 10 %WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR EXPENC=
ES INCURED DURING THE BUSINESS AND 50 % WOULD BE FOR ME.THERE
AFTER I WILL COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR DISBURSEMENT ACCODING
THE PERCENTAGES INDICATED.THEREFORE TO ENABLE THE IMMEDIATE
TRNANSFER OF THIS FUND TO YOU AS ARRANGED,YOU MUST APPLY FIRST TO
THE BANK AS THE RELATION OR NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED,INDICATING
YOUR CLAIMS AND WHERE IN THE MONEY WILL BE REMITTED .

UPON RECEIPT OF YOUR REPLY, I WILL SEND TO YOU BY FAX OR EMAIL THE
TEXT OF APPLICATION WHICH YOU WILL FILL ANDSUBMIT TO THE OFFICE OF
THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE DIRECTOR OF THE BANK OF AFRICA. I WILL NOT
FAILTO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS STRICLY
CONFIDENTIAL AND I WILL USE MY POSITION IN THIS BANK TO EFFECT A
HITCH FREE TRANSFER OF THE FUND.

YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS
LETTER.

TRUSTING TO HEAR FROM YOU IMMEDIATELY.


PLEASE , VISIT THE WEBSITE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATIONS
ABOUT THE PLANE CRASH AND THE TRAGIC DEATH OF THE DECEASED AND HIS
ENTIRE FAMILY,
LATE DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY.

HTTP://WWW.CNN.COM/2003/WORLD/AFRICA/07/20/KENYA.CRASH/INDEX.HTML

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
TANJA HAMED
REPLY-TO: tanja_hamed0044@yahoo.com



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