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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "malaki ahmed" <malaki_a05@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:45:11 +0000
Subject: OUR OPPORTUNITY-PLS RESPOND IMMEDIATELY

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the season!

I know that this letter may come to you as a great surprise,but please don't
let it bother you so much i sent it to you for our mutual benefits.As it may
interest you to know i got your e-mail address through Burkinese Chambers Of
Commerce.

I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section at the
foriegn remittance department of International Bank Of Africa (Iba) here in
Ouagadoudou-Burkina Faso,West Africa.

In my department i discovered a huge abandoned sum of US$13.7Million dollars
( Thirteen million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died along with his
entire family on October 31st 1999 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over here and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we Were
extremely Surprised that nobody came as his next of kin to claim the fund
uptill now.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you So That Bank will release the fund to you as the next of kin
or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidling here stipulates that if such fund remained
unclaimed after TEN YEARS the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you for your assistance,and in
respect to the provision of a foriegn account,10% will be set aside for
expenses incured during the transfer of the fund into your account while 60%
will be for me as the originator of the transaction.I will visit your
country for disbursement of the fund according to the percentage indicated
as soon as the total fund is transferred into your account.

Therefore,to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name,your bank account number,your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you a text of application for you to
apply to the bank.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch -free and that you should not entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.But you
must keep it very secret untill the fund is transferred to your account to
avoid any implication now that am still a civil servant.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you recieve this letter so that
I will send you the application to apply to the bank.I will be here
monitoring the whole transaction on your behalf as soon as you have applied
as the beneficiary .

Please feel free to call me on this my mobile line 00226-76-43-74-08 for
more clarifications.I am waiting urgently for your response.

Yours faithfully.
MR.MALAKI AHMED

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