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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.
• 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.
  • wilson_baka@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. WILSON BAKA" <wilson_baka@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:05:26 -0500
Subject: GOOD DAY TO YOU!!!

Dear Sir

My name is Mr. Wilson Baka. I work in the credit and accounts department of
City Bank Johannesburg, South Africa.

I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domiciliary A/C number
6402356789. His name is Engineer Manfred Becker.

He was among those who died in a car accident along with his wife and 3
kids in a 406 Peugeot along the high express way in the UK.

Sir, since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Manfred Becker, who
was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the
deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the
money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only
$9.5mllion in
his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the
code or password of the deposit particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed
information other than my very self considering my position in the
bank. Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit
as next of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as
the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign off
shore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed
the deposit file from the safe. By so doing, what is required of you is
to send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the
late Engineer. I will need your full name and address telephone/fax number,
company or residential, also your bank name and account, where the money
will transfer into. So that i can computerize them totally with next of
kin column in the certificate of deposit.

Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the
next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin. When you
contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split
between us.


Trusting to hear from you,

I remain respectfully yours,
Mr. Wilson Baka

Email: wilson_baka@excite.com

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