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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found 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.
  • f_remit_dept_bib1@maktoob.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mr_hbilly2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:42:01 +0000
Subject: IT IS VERY URGENT.

FROM THE DESK OF MR HASSAN BILLY,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK INTERNATIONAL OF BURKINA (B.I.B)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



DEAR FRIEND,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. However after
series of petition was received by this present regime from foreign contractors
for the inability of the BANK INTERNATIONAL OF BURKINA (B.I.B) to fulfilled
their obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors. In conjunction
with the council of ministers, has mandated us to carry out a careful and
comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and
to effect payments immediately.


During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$9.5
(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa. 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 some body applies for
it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines and laws 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.


Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about
the Plane Crash and the Deceased DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY AND HIS FAMILY.

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1390626,00.html

It is therefore upon this discovery that, I now decided to make this business
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 I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill. I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 65% would be for me,
there after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.


Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation 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 wherein
the money will be remitted. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send
to you by email the text of the application to fill and send to the bank.



I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free
risk and you should keep this transaction (TOP SECRET) and this transaction
will only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do
and move the fund into your account without any delay and that you should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer. You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter
so that I will send you the text of the application to apply to the bank
and you should also contact me through this my private e-mail box : f_remit_dept_bib1@maktoob.com

Yours faithfully,
MR HASSAN BILLY.

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