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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "aziz kabore" <dr_ahmed583@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:32:09 +0000
Subject: Please treat as urgent....

DR AHMED SANKARA.
Head Foreign Exchange Dept:
BANK OF AFRICA, Abidjan/Cote d' Ivoire.




ATTN: / CEO.

Dear Friend,

REQUREST FOR CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS

I came across your e-mail address through internet index and I felt that you
can be of assistance to me.
I want my bank to transfer out $10,000,000.00(Ten Million United state
Dollars) from our bank here; I have the courage to contact you for this
important transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now
or in future.
I am the manager of foreign exchange department of bank of Africa BOA here
in Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire. There is an account opened in this bank in 1995
and since my inception into office in 2002, nobody has operated on this
account again, after going through some old files, I discovered that if I do
not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for nothing.


I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to any local bank here in Cote d' Ivoire, but can only be approved
to any foreign account because the money is in Dollars and the former owner
of the account was DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY a citizen of Atlanta, United States of
America but naturalised in Cote d' Ivoire,West Africa and contractor with
ECOWAS, (ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES).
It was said that this foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come
over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased customer as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 55% will be for me, while 10% will be for any expenses both parties
might have incurred during this process. Please your urgent respond is
needed immediately after reading this mail then I will be giving you more
details on how we are going carry out something's in this transaction.

Thanks
Sincerely,
DR AHMED SANKARA.

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