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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: micheal <michealfranklin49@blackglobalnetwork.net>
Reply-To: michealfranklin3004@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:31:42 -0600
Subject: MICHEAL FRANKLIN




FROM:MR, MICHEAL FRANKLIN
 TELE/FAX: 011-874-7622-77567
Dear Sir,/madam,


My name is MR, MICHEAL FRANKLIN the Manager, Credit and Foreign bill
of BANKERS TRUST NAIROBI- KENYA PLC. I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of my bank with account number-17-202-807/ffb/n
MR.EDWARD HOOKER ,a deceased passenger who died on 1st February 1997
in a plane crash on Kenyan airways on Aircraft HAWKER SIDDELEY HS-748.
This crash happened near the capital city and the registration number
of the Aircraft is 6AV-AEO,and since his untimely death the funds has
been dormant in his account,

I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but
all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of
US$10.5M, [TEN Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars]
which has been with my branch for a very long time. On this note, I
decided to seek for whom his or her name shall be used as the next of
kin as no one has

come upto be the next of kin and the banking ethics here does not
allow such money to stay more than eight years, because money will be
recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period. In view
of this I got your contact through a trade journal and decided to
contact you. I will give you 30% of the total sum.Upon the receipt of
your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the Application Letter
and other necessary documents
which you will use to apply in the bank and the next step to take in
respect to this transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any
fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five
banking days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the
deceased. When you receive this
letter, Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including
your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick
communication.
Respectfully submitted,
MR, MICHEALFRANKLIN

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