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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "i will give you 35% " (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "ken sam" <kensam11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kensam@uku.co.uk
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:07:11 +0200
Subject: GOOD DAY From:Mr.Ken Sam.

From:Mr.Ken Sam.
7th Floor, Kamkholo Bld
Cnr. Brown and Voortrekker Str.
Nelspruit 1200.Johannesburg
South Africa.

{THIRTY SIX MILLION USD)
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($36,000,000.USD)
{BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY/YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED}

Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Mr.Ken Sam,and I work in the International operation department
in a Local Bank here in South Africa. On a routine auditing I discovered a
dormant domiciliary account with a balance of$36,000,000 (Thirty Six Million
USD) on further investigation, I also scovered that the account holder has
died since and leaving no beneficiary to the account.

Therefore I wish to let you know that the bank can approve this money to any
foreigner who can come up because the former operator of the account was a
foreigner and from Iraq in particular and he is dead, and nobody will come
again for the claim of this money it is only a oreigner that can claim this
money with legal claims to the account holder, therefore I need your
cooperation in this business so that we can claim this money. All I want you
to do is to send me your account information so that I will use it to apply
for foreign payment approval on your behalf as the bonafide "BENEFICIARY"
and the next of "KIN" to the account.

You can even send an empty account so long as it can carry the amount we
want to tranfer.I will provide every other necessary information needed in
order to claim this money, but all you have to do is to be following my
instructions very well.Send also your Telephone Number, and Fax number so
that I can call you and give you further details about this business. I will
give you 35% of the total amount after the successful transfer of the money,
and I will take 65% while the remaining 5% will be use to offset any debt
both of us may incurr in the cause of the business. Finally this business
requires highly "CONFIDENTIALITY" as any breach in it thereof could
jeopardize my job and the future of my family.

Best Regards,

Mr.Ken Sam

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