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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "director of operations foreign remittance division" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance division" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • boafcustomerunit@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "A N." <rawaa.2007@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:38:20 +0000
Subject: Fill the text of application and send it to the bank immediately.

Dear Ameline Orr,


Thanks for your willingness to assist me in this transaction.I want to
assure you that this business is 100% risk free.I give you my words and we
are going to conclude this transaction in Good Faith and share the fund
peacefully.You don't have to be worried because I will ensure that this fund
is transfered into your account without having any problem.What you have to
do is to listen to my guide line untill the fund is transferred into your
account then I will come over for the disbursment of the fund according to
the percentages I indicate in my first letter.30% for you,65% for me and 5%
for any expenses you and I may incure....telepone bills and taxes your bank
will request when the fund is transfered.For your information I got your
email address from an internet when I am looking for a reliable person I
will do this business with though I did not know much of you.I strongly
beleive that we will work together as partners and get this fund transfered
into your account peacefully.

May looking at the whole transfer process it might look so difficult to
achieve a sucessful result but I tell you that it is not as difficult as you
might see it.There will not be any risk or problem after this fund is
transfered into your account because i will delete all the files concerning
the deceased Mr.CHUN Hassan YUONG in our bank after the fund is
transferred.This business is involve only you and I.I want to assure you
that this business will not cause any kind of problem to you because we are
going to do it legally.When this fund is transfered there will be some cover
up document's my bank will issue you to show your bank that this fund is
legally acquired.I tend to invest some part of this fund in hotel business
and also import some agricultural machine's back to Burkina-faso
which I will use to set up mechanised farming.We can join together to set up
all this investment if you wish but if it is not ok by you then you have to
collect your own share and do any thing you want to do with it.This business
will take us about 14 working days to mature.You have to give me the benefit
of the doubt and give me all the surpport I need in this business and I
assure you that we will all smile at the end of the day.For further detail
you can reach me thruogh my private number . 00226 76 56 94 63.

Mr Rawaa.

Bellow is the application for the transfer.


==========================================================================================================================
ATTN: Dr Adama Compaore
The Director of Operations
Foreign Remittance Division
Bank of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina-faso.
Fax: 00226 50 42 01 30.
EMAIL: boafcustomerunit@financeFan.net
EMAIL:boafcustomerunit@excite.com

Dear Sir,

APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF US$18.2 Million US dollars (EIGTHTEEN
MILLION TOW HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) FROM DORMANT ACCOUNT
NUMBER:$286-41732-55.

I MR............................HUMBLY APPLY TO THIS BANK
TODAY............2006 AS NEXT OF KIN TO YOUR DECEASED CUSTOMER MR CHUN
HASSAN YUONG.

I HEREBY PUTTING CLAIM OVER HIS BALANCE WITH THIS BANK VALUED AT (US$18.2
Million US dollars (EIGTHTEEN MILLION TOW HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE
DOLLARS)) LEFT IN HIS ACCOUNT..

I HEREBY SUBMIT MY APPLICATION FOR THE REQUEST OF MY TRANSFER FORM,FROM YOUR
BANK, DESPITE YOUR OVER LOADED PROGRAMS I WISH YOU TREAT MY APPLICATION AS
URGENCY ...

THIS IS THE MONEY LEFT BEHIND IN YOUR BANK BY MY DECEASED COUNSIN MR CHUN
HASSAN YUONG.,WHO DIE IN A PLANE CRASH ON SEPTEMBER, 2002 ABIDJAN,COTE
D'IVOIRE .HE WAS A TAIPIE TAIWAN PROPERTY MAGNATE NATIONAL AND OWNED BELOW
COMPANIES IN OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO:

STE BILLINGS SARL

IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY,

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.

I AM HIS COUSIN AND NAMED NEXT OF KIN AND THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED AMOUNT BE
TRANSFERED INTO MY NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT AS BELOW:

AGE:....................................................

OCCUPATION: .............................................

YOUR PHONE NUMBER.......................................

HOLDER'S ACCOUNT NAME...................................

BANK NAME........................................................

BANK ADDRESS..................................................

BANK TEL/FAX...................................................

SWIFT CODE ..........................................

ACCOUNT NUMBER.............................................

SAVING/CURRENT/DEPOSIT (STATE ONE)

PLEASE,ACCEPT THIS LATE APPLICATION AS IT WAS DUE TO THE FAMILY LOGISTIC
PROBLEM CONSEQUENT UPON HIS FUNERAL RIGHTS.I HOPE YOU WILL EXPEDITE ACTION.

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
..........................................

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