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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:

• 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.
  • mr.abu_ibrahim@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mr.abu_ibrahim2007@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 05:39:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM MR.ABU IBRAHIM


FROM MR.ABU IBRAHIM
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A),
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA-FASO.
Good Day;

I know that this letter may come to you as asuprise I got your contactaddress from the Internet when I was searching for a business partner.My name is Mr.abu ibrahim.I am the Bill and Exchange Manager of bank of africa(B.O.A) ,Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of (30.MillionsThirty Millions Pounds). In an account that belongsto one of our foreign customer who died along with his wife and children in a plane crash in a year 1999 plane crash happened in (U.K)

Since we got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this businessproposals to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I have agreed that 45% of this money will be for you as foreigner partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account.10% will be set asidefor expenses incurred during the business and 45% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.If you know that you are capability of doing this teansaction with me contact me on my contact E-mail mr.abu_ibrahim@yahoo.com,


Jazaakumullah for your email, Insha Allah

Thanks.

Yours Sincerely,


mr.ABU IBRAHIM

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