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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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Fraud email example:

From: "DR ZONGO AHMMED" <z_ahmmed@excite.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: z_ahmmed@mail.com
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:48:23 +0000
Subject: I will be waiting for your immediate reply

BANK INTERNATIONAL DU BURKINA
770, Avenue de la Rsistance du 17 mai,
01 BP 1319, Ouagadougou burkina faso
Telephone (00226 78 87 11 78 )

Hello my dear,
I will like to solicit your kind help in a business proposition, which is
by nature very confidential and a Top Secret.

I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one worried and
apprehensive but I am assuring you not to worry, as all will be well at
the end of this endeavor,also in a transaction like this, it has to do with
a lot of trust.

I am Dr Zongo ahmmed , a supervisor,customer service with the BANK INTERNATIONAL
DU BURKINA (B.I.B) and I have decided to seek your help in transfer of
a huge sum of money requiring maximum confidence .

THE PROPOSITION
A foreigner, Dr. George Brumley who we beleive and was an oil merchant
and a big time contractor to several african governments. Until his death
onboard the ill fated Kenyan Airways bus {A310300}, he was our customer
and had
a balance of US$ 10.5 Million( ten Million, five hundred thousand United
States Dollars) which the bank now expects his next of kin to claim as
the beneficiary.

i have made valuable efforts to get his people to no avail as he had no
known relatives, due to this development our management and our board of
directors are making arrangements for the funds to be declared unclaimed
and subsequently paid into the banks treasury.

Meanwhile, to avert this negative development with my position in the bank,
i have decided to contact you to act as the next of kin to late Dr. so
that the funds will be released and paid into your account and this is
where you come in.

All documents to aid your claim will be provided when i see your welling
.so that as soon as this is done, i will start making plans on how to come
over to your country for sharing.

30% will be for you , for your assistancy and also be assured that this
transaction is risk free i will need phone number for more communication.
VERY IMPORTANT.

I will be glad if my proposal is successful.call me with my number as sooon
as my proposal is granted for futher questions and for us to discuss more.
00-226-78-87 11 78

Confidencial personal regards.
Dr Zongo Ahmmed

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