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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: morris idris <morris_idris28@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE


Mr Morris Idris
Auditing &Accounting Dept.
Amalgamated Bank of South Africa {ABSA}
Tel:27-833 69 2084.
RE: TRANSFER.
DEAR SIR/MADAM

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before, but my confidence was reposed On you. I am an auditor in Amalgamated Bank of South Africa (ABSA)Sandton branch,Johannesburg South Africa.
The intended business is thus; We had a customer Mr.Farouk Ahmed,a Turkish National resident in South Africa, he was a Contractor with one of the GovernmentParastatals.He has in his Account in my branch the sum of Thirty Million,U.S.Dollars (US$30.M).Unfortunately,the man died during the incident at the world trade center in united states of america. Uptill today none of his next of kin has come forward to claim the money.Having noticed this, I in collaboration with two other top Officials of the bank covered up the account all this while.
Now we want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as the next of kin to the deceased customer and forward all the necessary information to be advised to you by us to attest to the Claim. We will use our positions to get all internal documentation to back up the claims.
The whole procedures will last only ten working days to get the fund
retrieved successfully and wire it to your bank account without traces even in future.
Your response is only what we are waiting for as we have put all machineries that will be instrumental to the success of the transaction in motion.As soon as this message comes to you, kindly get back to me indicating your interest, then I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure that the transaction is successfully Concluded. For assisting us, we have agreed in principle to offer you 30% of the total sum at the end of the transaction,10% will for the expense incured during the transaction and 60% will be for us. It is risk free and abig mega fortune.
Please send your private phone/fax numbers for easier communication.You
should also send any account that will be good to pay this money into
without your bank asking about the sourse of the money.
My telephone number is{27-83 369 2084}call me anytime of the day.
I await your earliest response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Morris Idris



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