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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • jamesramzia@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr James Ramzi" <jamesram5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jamesramzia@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:13:04 -0400
Subject: My name is Mr. James Ramzi

PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS

My name is Mr. James Ramzi.a Banker and accountant
with BIAO BANK Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. I am the personal accounts manager to
Engr. Morrison Martin a National of your country, who used to work with an
oil servicing company here in Cote Ivoire.

My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated
Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all
passengers on board died.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives but has bee nunsuccessful. After several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet,to
see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.

Of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in,where the
deceased has an account valued at about ($10.5 million US dollars).They have
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the
account unservisable and thereby send the funds to the bank treasury.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last year
March, I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this
account valued at ($16million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you
and I can share the money. All I require is your honest cooperation to
enable us see this deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. If you can handle this with me,
reach me now through this email Thanking you for your anticipated
cooperation.
Mr. James Ramzi

contact me with my private email address:(jamesramzia@yahoo.fr)

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