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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "IRU DUNU" <irudunu047@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: irudunu2006@myway.com
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 16:57:45 +0000
Subject: COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY

Hello,

This business requires maximum confidence and secrecy. Do not be
apprehensive and do not hesitate to give me a response or telephone call to
this very business e-mail.I have decided to contact you through your mailbox
due to the urgency of this transaction.

I am Mr Iru Dunu Edwin, I work in a bank in Burkina faso called
S.G.B.B(Societe Generale Banques au Burkina).I came to know of you in my
private on-line search for a person to handle this confidential business
which requires maximum confidence. A business commercialist who died in a
plane crash,has a total sum of US$6M (Six Million United States Dollars)
with our bank and since death occured of him for over 4years now, no next of
kin has claimed his financial balance till date. It is because of the
perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of his relation, the
management of our bank under the influence of the remittance office and the
Board of Directors, are making arrangements for the funds to be declared
"UNCLAIMED BILL" so that the fund will be paid into the Federal Government
treasury.

In order to avert this negative development, I now seek your permission to
have you stand as a next of kin so that the US$6M would be released and paid
into your bank account as the beneficiary & relative next of kin to the
deceased person.

BENEFITS...

On your reply of acceptance, I shall inform you on how to handle this
business, we shall also discuss and agree on our individual shares/benefits
as regards to the sharing of the US$6M. This is for your benefit and mine
too, so I await your urgent response today.

Sincerely,
Mr Iru Dunu Edwin,

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