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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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "solomon nwaoma" <solomonnwaoma@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:45:39 +0000
Subject: KINDLY GET BACK TO ME

Dear Friend,

Good day to you,

I am MR Solomon Nwaoma, an accountant in the bill and exchange department of
the foreign remmittance section of Banque Togolaise De Developpement
Lome,Togo in West Africa.
I contacted you into this transaction so that you will act as the next of
kin before the bank to enable them to effect the transfer of the funds to
your bank account upon the conclusion of this transaction. In my department,
we discovered an abandoned sum of 14 million US dollars (Fourteen million US
dollars), in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who
died along with his entire family in September,1997 in a plane crash.

Since we got this information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the
accident leaving no body behind to claim the money.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and a partner in my department
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 we don't want this money to
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We
agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during this transaction and 75 % would be for me and my colleagues.

Thereafter, I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated. To enable the immediate transfer of
this fund to you as arranged above, you must apply first to the Bank as the
relation or next of kin to the deceased indicating 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 will send to you by
fax or e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer.

You should contact me on my E-MAIL as soon as you receive this letter. I
decided to contact you as we have products of interest in your part of the
world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as
we are civil servants.
With your acceptance and cooperation, we can conclude this operation within
ten working
days. Please keep this very confidential.

May God be with you.

yours faithfully,

MR Solomon Nwaoma.

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