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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: El-hadji Diaara <el_diaara@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:18:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Reply From M. El_Hadji Diaara.


Dear Mr. VICTIMNAME,

I believed we will jointly transact this business with good faith and I believe God has brought you to champion my destiny; the most important thing is truth and confidence towards one another.

What I need is to send me your particulars (Your full name and address, including the reference number of your identity card) so that I will reprogram the information in the computer, you as the next of kin to Mr Louis Galli who died in a plane crash with all his family, and then you will officially contact the bank for the claiming of the fund.

I am in charge of the bank's central computer; I knew every thing concerning this fund $25 million dollars. Once I reprogram the information in the computer by putting your name as the next of kin to Mr Galli and beneficiary to the fund. I will inform you and then you will immediately contact the bank officially and demand for claim. I will be giving you any necessary information required about the fund.

There is no risk for you to spend any money, even if there will be, I have enough money to take care of everything, all I needed from you is to use your name to claim this fund, because of my position in the bank I don't want to be noticed.
I am waiting urgently for your particulars as to enable me make the programming.

Best regards.

El_Hadji Diaara


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