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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:
  • "this mail will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "John Kuma" <johnkuma01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnkuma1@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:10:40 +0100
Subject: Peace be with you

Dear Friend,
Peace be with you as I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise. I
am Mr John Kuma the Chief Auditor Foreign Operation Department of Execs
Trust Bank Benin Republic, I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this
trust and confident that l am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit
of our both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of
US$8.261.210.00(Eight Million, Two hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Two
hundred and Ten United State Dollars.)immediately to your account. The money
has been dormant for two years in our Bank here without any body coming for
it.
I want to release the money to you as the Next of Kin to our deceased
customer Eng Reed Butler who died a long with all his Family and his next of
kin which is his first Son in an air crash since December 2003. View this
website www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/.)

I don't want the money to go into our Government treasury as an abandoned
fund,this is the reason why l contacted you, so that the bank can release
the money to you as the Next of Kin to the deceased customer. Please we
would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if you are
not interested.

Should you have any question or information, hesitate not to contact me
immediately via my private email address (johnkuma@walla.com) while you
should not hesitate to inform us earlier.Upon receipt of your reply, I will
send you full details on how the business will be executed .

Best regards
John kuma
Chief Auditor Foreign
Operation Department



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