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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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Dr Amel Ahmed Moukhtar Sedak <drmoukhtarsedak0@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: drsedak@pc.nu
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:34:30 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Please Can i trust you???.


Dr Amel Ahmed Moukhtar Sedak
Auditing and Accounting Unit
Foreign Operations Department
ADB- Bank, Lome-Togo Branch
Republic of Togo.

Dear Friend,

This is an official legal notice for an unclaimed fund left by Mr.Morris Thompson 61 years, of Fairbanks, Alaska America who died on January 31st 2000 with Alaska Airlines Flight 261.

You can as well confirm it by yourself through under stated Website of the incident.

WEBSITE: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

I am the director incharge of auditing and accounting unit of African Development Bank (ADB) of Togo. With due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you on a Business Transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us and our families in future

I discovered the sum twenty four Million one hundred thousand united states dollars (US$24,100,000.00) in his account and the account is coded,It is only an insider that could produce the code of the deposit particulars and the fund has been lying in as a suspence account,since no one has come up for claim.


As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through one of my good friends who works with Chamber of Commerce on foreign business relations here in Lome -togo though I did not disclose the deal to him. Meanwhile as a Senior Staff in this bank, and the Director of Auditing and Accounting, I have in my possession all the necessary documents to perfect this deal by making you the bonafide next of kin/Partner whom this money will be transferred into your account.

I hereby solicit for your immediate response and positive committed efforts to facilitate for the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased.

Upon your positive response to this convenant, I will make all necessary informations known to you,

I am expecting your urgent reply as soon as you receive this message

God bless you And your family.

Dr Amel Ahmed Moukhtar Sedak


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