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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (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: glory kallon <glorykallon3@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:14:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FROM AMALGAMATED BANK





AMALGAMATED BANK
RUE DE 541/ 542 MACOURY
ABIDJAN COTE D IVORY



Attn:Madam

How is the condition of health together with your family and others over there, I hope you all are healthy. It's my pleasure to acquaint you with this proposal for financial and business assistance But for purpose of introduction,

I am Mrs glory kallon,from AMALGAMATED BANK OF ABIDJAN IVORY D'COAST (ABAIC).I was totally convinced to contact you in reference to the transfer of US$10.5M belonginning to the late PRINCE BANDER BIN SAUD, a foreigner and a miner at Kruger gold co. and a geologist by profession who died since 1998 in an air mishap, please visit the web of all the people that died on the aircraft.

http:www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/swissbaysw.html

He made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$10,500,000.00(Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with AMALGAMATED BANK OF ABIDJAN IVORY D'COAST (ABAIC) branch upon maturity. I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account. And the amount involved is (USD 10.5 M ) Ten million five hundred United States dollars.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account is PRINCE BANDER BIN SAUD is a foreigner too.I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately.

Send also your private telephone and fax number .At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the total amount, 70% will be for me, and while 5% will be for any expenditure for both parties that might incurred during the process of this transaction.

I look forward to hear from you as soon as you received this e-mail.
Best Regards,
Mrs glory kallon.




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