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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Nachaat Nachaat <nachaat_nabban018@live.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:46:57 +0000
Subject:



MAIL FROM MR NACHAAT NABBANCorporate Strategy officerBANK OF AFRICA 770 Ave Sangoule LamzanaOUAGADOUGOUBURKINA FASO Good day, I am Mr.Nachaat Nabban ,Corporate Strategy officer at the Customer service department of Bank of Africa,Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. With due respect and regards. I write to solicit your assistance and collaboration in actualising a financial transaction which could be of mutual benefits for both of us. I discovered an abandoned sum of Seven Million Six hundred and fifty two thousand Euro(€7,652,000 Euro ) in a Fixed Term Deposit Account(FTDA) file which belong to a deceased customer of this bank(Mr Kelvin Goodman) ,the former director of operations of¨PetrolBurkina (the company that is responsible for the sales of petroleum products in Burkina Faso) he died in an auto accident with his wife and two children on 19th July 2003 while on Holiday in Bafora, a tourist village in southern Burkina Faso. It is therefore, upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to
you if you can act as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement of the fund since nobody is coming for it. Our banking rules stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after six years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.I have contacted you because this project requested the participation of a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to the deceased customer base of the fact that that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. On smooth conclusion of the transaction,you will be entitled to 40% of this money for your participation as my foreign partner 60% would be for me.I have no doubt in my mind that we shall continue to work as partners for the common good of this transaction. I do not need to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction demands, I will send to you the detailed information of this project when I have heard from you . I w
ait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation Your FaithfullyMR NACHAAT NABBAN
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