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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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: "Dr ABU SAL NADIL" <marshallkingsman400@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:33:23 +0100
Subject: FROM MR MARSHALL KINGSMAN.

Good Day

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to
transfer to your overseas account the sum
of($8.4MUSD)Eight million Four hundred thousand United
States Dollars) from one of the Prime Banks here in
Dakar-Senegal.

I am Mr Mashall Kingsman (Bsc,Msc,) the Auditor General of
one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal west
Africa,during the course of our auditing,I discovered
a floating fund in an account opened in the our bank
since 1982 and till date no body has operated on this
account again,after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account
died long ago in a plane crash along with his family
without leaving a[Heir/WILL]hence the funds is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Engr.Chen yu yung a
foreigner,a nationality of Asia before his death,
he was a management consultant and he died since 1992.
No other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that until his
sudden death he was a management consultant.

Since I hardly know any foreigner,I am only contacting
you as a foreigner to stand and apply as his next of
kin because this money can not be approved to a local
person here as his next of kin, without valid
international foreign passport.I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any
foreigner who has correct information of this
account,which I will give to you upon your positive
response and once I am convinced of your capability
and assurance that you will never never let me down.

At the conclusion of this business,you will be given
35% of the total amount,60% will be for me, while 5%
will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply

Yours Truly

Marshall Kingsman

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