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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)
  • "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))
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • joeljohnson001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: juel johnson <jueljuliet_02@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: juel_juliet@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:31:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION



Dear friend,
With due respect and humanity, I write to you this
proposal. I am a staff of bill and exchange at the
foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale
du Abidjan.
As it may interest you to know, I got your contact
through my international business enquiry as I was
making contact of an foreign partner that will assist
me to bring this deal to be a success. I believe you
will be capable and reliable to champion this business
opportunity.
In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of
U.S$28m US dollars (Twenty-eight million US dollars) .
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his entire family in a
plane crash.
Since I got information about his death, I have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim
his money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and
policies but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claims.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials 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 forth and we don’t want this money to go into
the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
According to our Banking policies and guideline here
which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed
after five years, the money will automatically 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 in Ivorian that someone from Ivory
Coast here cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10% will be for reimbursement of any
expenses incurred during the curse of the transaction
and 60% would be for me and my colleagues.

Thereafter I and my colleagues will 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 relation or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for
easier and effective communication and location where
the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email 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 immediately by below ;
Tel:+22507264203 OR Email: joeljohnson001@yahoo.fr
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Joel Johnson.



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