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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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27723898668 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • komi504@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ibrahim komi" <komifree@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:11:20 +0200
Subject: call me

DR IBRAHIM KOMI.
The Manager of Audit and Account Department,
BANK OF AFRICA ( N.B.S)
SOUTH AFRICA
tell+27-72-38-98-668
your reply to this e-mail: komi504@hotmail.com
Dear Friend,
Please read carefully and get back to me, I hope that you are well today.I
am the Manager of Audit and account dept of our bank, with due respect, i
decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the
sum of TEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
($10,300,000m) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.This is
an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank customers who died
along with his entire family on 25th July,2001 in a plane crash disaster. I
was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old and
abandoned customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to the bank
managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking
financial
policy, it was obviously indicated and signed law fully that if such money
remains unclaimed after five years without somebody been a foreigner apply
and claim the fund as the next of kin , the money will be transferred into
the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim
because a citizen of SOUTH AFRICA cannot come forward to claim the fund
since the law does not permit an indigene to claim such fund Since the real
beneficary of the fund is died , the bank are expecting the next of kin
to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but
unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out that
there is nobody behind who can
come and claim the fund.

Therefore I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account
details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately the fund
is transferred into your account ,i will share the fund according to the
percentage indicated below.

SIXTY PERCENT (60%) of the total fund will be for me.THIRTY PERCENT( 30%)
for you in provision of the Bank account.FIVE PERCENT(5%) will be for
unexpected expenses which may occur
during the transfer.FIVE PERCENT(5%) will be preserved for helping the
helpless people, like charity organization and motherless babies. Thereafter
you will help me to visit
your country for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated
above.

And for the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only existing next of kin
to the deceased customer and
after approval which will take place immediately as you applied, the
transfer of the fund into your nominated bank account will proceed. Please
note that you should keep this business secret until you confirm the
transfer into the bank account which you will provide. And there is NO
RISK in this business.

The bank will forward to you all necessary documents related to the transfer
and which will prove that you make a legal claim of inheritance. It is true
that i pray to GOD before i was pushed forward to contact you for this
business but i want you to assure me solemnly that you are
atrsutwothy,reliable,honest and capable to avoid cheating me in this
business.If you are really sure of your integerity,reply immediatelly you
receive this mail for more detailed information on how the process to
transfer the fund into your account will be.

Yours faithfully,

DR IBRAHIM KOMI.

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