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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "elexandre traore" <elexandre_44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: elexandre_traor02@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 02:57:06 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF ELEXANDRE TRAORE (Esq).

FROM THE DESK OF ELEXANDRE TRAORE (Esq).
THE MANAGER IN CHARGE OF AUDITING
AND ACCOUNTING UNIT FOREIGN
REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGA-BURKINA FASO IN WEST AFRICA.

PLANE CRASH WEB SITE..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
("REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
&nbs p; CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")

Compliment Of The Season,
On a very good day. I am (ELEXANDRE TRAORE Esq),The Head of file Department
in African developent bank (ADB).I got your contact from Yahoo tourist
search.
When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability and
reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God or
Allah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15
million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in (Monday 31st July 2000) in a plane crash. Since we got information about
his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indica ted in our banking guidelines, but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department
now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money 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 guideline
here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after five 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 occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next
of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will
be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for
me and my woman colleague. There after i will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the
immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to
the bank as relations 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 where the money will be
remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of the application 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 thetransfer.

Your’s faithfully,

ELEXANDRE TRAORE (Esq.)

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to
move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very
well over this business.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Je suis le directeur du bureau de changes à la BAD-burkina. Je m'appelle Dr
Elexandre Traore.
Dans mon département,il a été découvert une importante somme d'argent qui
appartenait à un de nos clients qui mourut lors d'un accident d'avion en
juillet 2000 avec sa famille entière ne laissant personne pour réclamer
cette fortune qui s'élève à $15 M USD(américains).Vous pouvez avoir plus
d'informations de cet accident sur ce site
Web:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Depuis lors, personne ne s'est présenté pour réclamer cette somme qui se
trouve dans notre banque. Or, les règlements bancaires en Afrique stipulent
que, si une telle somme reste sans revendication après une période de
5ans,ceci doit être virée dans dans le compte de trésor bancaire. C'est afin
d'éviter que ce fond profite au gouvernement burkinabé que mon collègue et
moi avons décidé de chercher un partenaire étranger qui peu nous aider à
faire transférer cette somme dans son compte bancaire. Ceci dit, vous devrez
vous présenter au niveau de la banque comme héritier du défunt afin de
devenir bénéficiaire de ce fond. Le choix d'un étranger pour jouer ce rôle
révèle du fait qu'un burkinabé ne peut pas se présenter comme héritier(e) de
notre défunt client Nous acceptons que vous aurez les 30% du partage,mon
collègue et moi aurons les 60% alors que 10% seront consacrés aux dépenses
survenues lors du transfert. Une fois ce fond transféré, mon collègue et
moi viendrons sur place chez vous en vue du partage, conformément aux
pourcentages sus indiqués. Ainsi vous devez me donner toutes vos
coordonnées, ce qui me permettra de mieux vous connaître et de vous envoyer
le texte d'application(demande de transfert).Je vous rassure que ce business
est à 100%sans risque et que vous ne devrez mettre en vous aucun atome de
crainte. Veuillez croire cher monsieur, l'expression de mes considérations.

Distinguée.

Merci .

ELEXANDRE TRAORE (Esq.)

_________________________________________________________________
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