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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: "Maryam Mohammed" <maryam_051981@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: maryam_061981@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:48:01 +0400
Subject: attn: please

From: MARYAM MOHAMMED.

MANHATTAN BANK DUBAI (MBD).





Dear Friend,





With all due respect to your personality, I request that you do not feel disturbed as I know that business of this magnitude will surely make one apprehensive.



I write to solicit your utmost confidence, knowing too well that we have neither known nor met each other before, but because you and the late Mr.Jack Young are from the same country. Having searched through the internet,from where I got your email address, I hereby request that you become the Next of Kin to the late customer of our bank,Late Mr. Jack Young, who died in West Africa here and abandoned a fixed deposit of Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars(USD $ 9.500.000.00), without a specified next of kin to inherit the deposit at the time of his death.



My name is MARYAM MOHAMMED.I am an accountant and the accounting officer to the Jack Young in THE MANHATTAN BANK DUBAI (MBD). In the financial Laws of Emirates Dubai, the holding bank is required to repatriate any abandoned fund by a foreigner if nobody comes to claim the said funds after three (3) years of the confirmation of the death of the depositor. For the past three years,all the effort of our Customer Service Department to trace any relative of the Late Mr. Jack Young has proved abortive. I do not want this funds to go into the hands of our corrupt government officials..




My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:

1) To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt government officials.



2) To make you the Next of Kin to the late Mr. Jack Young and whom he has willed the said deposit before his death.



3) To ensure that the deposited funds is transferred to your account as INHERITANCE, so that the proceeds of this account valued at Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States dollar (USD$9.500.000.00) can be paid to you and then you and I can share this money. 60% to me and 35% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your Government may require.

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