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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "transfer into your 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Kokuvi Justin <justin.k.ou6@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <justinkou@homs.cc>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:39:49 +0000
Subject: # Partnership




FROM MR JUSTIN KOKUVI.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS
DEPARTMENT.
BANQUE ATLANTIQUE,
LOME- TOGO.

Dear Sir/Madam
,

I am Mr Justin Kokuvi the head of auditing and accounting section of
Banque Atlantique, Lome-Togo in West Africa with due respect and regard.I have
decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to
both of us at the end of the transaction .

I am writing to seek your
cooperation over this transaction,after the annual auditing of the year 2006, I
discovered an abandoned sum of (U.S$9.5M UNITED STATES DOLLARS).in an account
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. Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over
and claim his funds 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
along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim.

It's therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you to make sure his balance of fund will be released 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 three
years, the money will be transfered into the federal treasury as unclaimed fund
and finally get shared among our corrupt bank officials. I think it will be
better for us to put a major part of this funds into helping people suffering
from aids, orphans,displaced persons, etc and keep some percentage, instead of
letting some dubious leaders of the bank put this funds in their personal
pockets.

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 TOGOLAISE cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree to offer you 30% of this
money as my foreign partner as soon as we conclude the transfer into your
account. as soon as the money hit your account 10% will be set aside for
expences incurred during the transfer and 45% would be for me, while we use the
remaining to assist the needy.

You are to send to me the following
information,if you are willing to work with
me.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE
NUMBER:
Fax:
AGE:

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is strictly confidential and i will use my position in this Bank to
effect a hitch free transfer of this fund into any of your private account.
Please, visit the website below for more information on the Plane Crash and the
tragic death DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY and his entire family.

SITE: www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Yours
Sincerely,

Mr Justin Kokuvi


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