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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)
  • "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 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.
  • musa_ibrahim6@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: musa_ibra1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:32:38 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?READ=20CAREFULLY=20AND=20CALL=20ME=2E?=

FROM Mr MUSA IBRAHIM.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPEMENT BANK(A.D.B)
OUAGA-BURKINA FASO.
TEL:+226-764-144-86.


Dear Friend,

With presumed reliance, let me introduce myself. My name is Mr Musa Ibrahim.
I am the auditing and accounting officer of African Developement Bank (A.D.B).I
got your contact over the Internet in my search for the relatives of one
of our numerous customers who died alongside with his family in Car Accident.

During the routine check in my branch, I discovered an abandoned sum of
fiveteen million eight hundred thousand united states dollars,(USD$15.8m).
in an account belonging to an expatriate customer Mr. Alex Otaman, a mining
consultant contractor with one of the leading oil company in Ouaga-Burkina
Faso before his accidental death on Saturday 4Th May 2000 in Bobo via the
ill-fated.

Ever since then, valuable efforts have been made to get to his people but
to no avail, as he had no known relatives and more so, he used his wife's
name as his next of kin in his account opening forms. I have been expecting
his relatives to come over to claim his money as it cannot be claimed unless
somebody applies officially for it as his next of kin as indicated in our
banking guide but no avail. Unfortunately, I discovered that his supposed
next of kin (his wife and children) died with him over the car incident.
Over the years, I decided to look for the necessary papers relating to the
deposit in order to make business out of it as the deposit was made in my
branch. Now that all papers are ready, I am asking for your assistant to
release the money to you as his relation/next of kin for safekeeping and
subsequent disbursement. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make any one apprehensive but I am assuring you of the Security of us all
as modalities have been perfected for a swift and smooth operation.

You are being contacted because Since nobody showed up for his money and
I don't want it to go back into Burkina Faso Government account as unclaimed
bill when the next audit is conducted. The banking law and guideline here
stipulates that such money if remain unclaimed, will be transferred into
banking treasury as unclaimed effect. The request of a foreigner to act
as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you. I
will visit your country for the disbursement/investing of my share according
to the percentages we shall agree upon after the successful transfer of
the money to your account.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free
and that there is absolutely no risk in it, having concluded the modalities
for a smooth operation and my position in the bank guarantees its successful
execution. All I require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee of your
sincerity and capability to enable us conclude this deal.
Note however that the sensitive nature of this transaction demands that
you have to keep it absolutely confidential.

Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter
if you do not appreciate this proposition. Thank you very much for your
time.

Trusting to hear from you immediately,

reply through my private email(musa_ibrahim6@yahoo.com)

Best regards,
Mr Musa Ibrahim.
TEL:+226-764-144-86.

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