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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:
  • "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.
• 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.
  • boa_inter_remitancebf@emailaccount.com

Fraud email example:

From: Maus Kabore <maus_kabore@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:53:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE : email


From:...............................................
Address...........................................
Tel Number........................................
Fax Number......................................
Email Address:...................................
Country.............................................

ATTN: DR. ALI ABOUBAKA
The Manager Foreign Remittance Department
BANK OF AFRICA
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
E-mail;boa_inter_remitancebf@emailaccount.com

APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF FUND OF LATE DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER 2627578-2341

I,Mr.,...........................................from........................humbly wish to apply to your bank as the only surviving next of kin to your deceased client DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY from UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who died in an airplane crash.

I humbly apply and put claim over his fund with your bank which is valued at US ( United States of American Dollars) left in his account still unclaimed.

Until his sudden death, we have been business associates, jointly in exposition of agricultural equipments. The funds were for contracts we executed in West Africa for agricultural equipments that we supplied.

With this, I request that the fund in his account mentioned above be transferred to my account as follows:

Bank................................................
Account Number................................
Bank's Swift Code................................
Country.............................................

I wish that my application will be given urgent attention as I wish the balance be released and transferred into my account as stated above.

Please accept my apology for the late application. It was due to some logistic problems which have been just settled.

Anticipating with thanks your kind consideration on the above application.

Thank you very much and more power!

Very truly yours,
Mr........................................




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