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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • ham_ahmed2007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmed hamza" <ahmed_hamza006@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:28:01 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF DR.AHMED HAMZA.

Dear Partner,

Greetings to you ! this letter is strictly personal, intimate and
confidential.Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you,but this
particular letter is of exceptional and very private nature. There
is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in
respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many miscreants have
taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds,
thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate business
class
persons to get attention and recognition.

There is no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it
is my duty to write and reach out to you. For i know that you are the only
one that can be trusted to handle this project effectively without making us
regret.I am (FROM THE DESK OF (DR. AHMED HAMZA.) Manager Bills/Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department of ( ADB )AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO IN WEST AFRICA. In my department i discovered an
abandoned sum of US$ 12.5M(TWELVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customers
who died on 11th September 2001 in world trade center (WTC). Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come
over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applied for it as the next of kin, or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our Banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. It is based on
this that i , as the bill and exchange manager decided to establish a
cordial business relationship with you, hence by contacting you.I want you
to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the deceased
customer, so that the fund can be remitted into your account since nobody is
coming for it. And again i do not want the money to go into the government
account as unclaimed bills.

The Banking laws and guidelines here stipulate that any account abandoned or
dormant for a period of years is deemed closed, all money contained therein
would be forfeited to the bank and government treasury account and as i see
this account, nobody comes for it and will not come because i have made
several enquires concerning the deseased. Now it is being speculated that
the above sum will be transferred into the government account as anunclaimed
fund if nobody comes forward .Is upon this reason i am requesting you to
present yourself as the next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the
deceased (customer)was a foreigner.Also more importantly is that i have been
given the right to screen the applicants and that is why i have decided to
hit this with
you . I will forward to you the detail information on how i have planned the
success of this if you agree to assist me.Your telephone and fax number will
be needed incase of urgency .

I have agreed to give you 40% of the total money .while i take 50% ,10%
will be for expenses incured during transaction on both side .If you are in
support of the aforementioned, therefore you are urged to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business.
After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps
to take. And I will like you to give me a concrete assurance that the
entire fund will be safe when transferred into your account. To enable us
conclude this transaction urgently,Please treat this business proposal
STICTLY CONFIDENTIAL for security reasons.Please contact me with this
private email address// ham_ahmed2007@yahoo.co.uk.

Best regards.

DR. AHMED HAMZA.

Tel: 00226 76 52 06 98 .

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