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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)
  • "million us 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • yvon.ismillah1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "yvon_ismillah03" <yvon_ismillah03@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:37:53 -0600
Subject: PLEASE..... TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL... tel: +76065938



FROM THE DESK OF MR ISMILLAH SALIM YVON
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:(00226) 76-06-59-38
+76-06-59-38

Dear friend,

You will be confused as of the writer since I have no previous correspondence with you, but kindly permit me the privilege of taking a little of your time.

First, I must solicit your confidence in this project. This is so By virtue of its nature as being utmost confidential and top-secret.

Though, I know that a project of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be result-oriented at the end of the Project.

I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this project, through an International Business Enquiry on the Internet.

I am Mr Ismillah Salim Yvon. the manager at the foreign remittance department, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $5.3million US dollars (FIVE POINT THREE MILLION US DOLLARS) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family some years
ago in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money, because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased costumer as it was indicated in our banking rules and regulation but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I'm making this business proposal to you so as to release the money into your account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety and
subsequent disbursement.

If nobody comes fort, the fund will automatically be transferred into bank's treasury, The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four to five years, it will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 40 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account and other necessary assistance for the smooth transfer, 10 % will be set aside for any expenses incurred during the curse of transfer and 50 % would be for me.

There after I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin to the deceased person indicating your bank name, account details, your private telephone and fax numbers for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted, Upon receipt of your reply,
I shall send to you a specimen of application which you will forward to the paying bank introducing yourself and at the same time instructing bank to effect the release of the fund into your account.

I must not hesitate to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free on both sides as the nature of your business in not connected to this transfer, so you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Contact me immediately on the above email account (yvon.ismillah1@yahoo.com) as soon as you receive this message to indicate your interest and willingness to co-operate.

Trusting to hear from. you immediately.
Your's Sincerly

Mr Ismillah Salim Yvon

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