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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "you will be given 30%" (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: "johnson adams" <j_adams_00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: j_adams_03@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:55:19 +0000
Subject: FROM MR JOHNSON ADAMS/URGENT REPLY NEEDED.

Mr Johnson Adams,
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank Of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

Re: Transfer of ($12,300.000.00 USD)(Twelve million three hundred thousand
dollars)

Dear friend,

We want to transfer to overseas ($12,300.000.00 USD) Twelve million three
hundred thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I want to
ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up
a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can
serve to receive this funds quitely. I am Mr Johnson Adams, the accountant
personal confidant to Dr. George Brumley who died together with his wife
Mrs. Jean Brumley in a plane crash on June. 2003. Mr George Brumley, is an
American, a physician and industrialist, he died without having any
beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which
he opened in a Bank of Africa in the year 2000 as his personal savings for
the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his
untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD12,300,000.00)Twelve million three hundred
thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you
for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to
first transfer $7,300.000.00 ( Seven million five hundred thousand
USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will
transfer the remaining (5M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a
local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can
only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or
drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the
former owner of the a/c Mr.George Brumley is a foreigner too, and as such
the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

However, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never
let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I
am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone
and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the
deposit.I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply. As soon as I receive your responds, I
will send you the details of the transaction and a text of application which
you will re-write and send to our bank for approval.

Sincerely yours,

Mr Johnson Adams.

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