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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • miganfinancial@alexandria.cc
  • miganfinancial@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Louis Migan" <miganfinancial19@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:28:03 +0100
Subject: Very Important

Dear Sir,


I am the President/CEO of African Development Bank. I got your contact
through an associate banker JINCHEON-DONG,GALSEO-GU, GAEGU, of SOUTH KOREA
so, I decided to contact you. In my bank I discovered an abandoned sum of
USD$ 10 Million US dollars
(Ten Million US dollars) belonging to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his entire family in JULY 2000, in a plane crash.

View the related website to it.
hhttp://www.aeronautics.ru/nws002/reuters044.htm. Since we got information
about the death of this VALUABE customer, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come up and claim the money that he left behind. Unfortunately, we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody behind to claim the money.


I then decided to contact you and also to be the next of kin or relation
to the deceased. The Banking laws and guideline in my country stipulates
that if such money remains unclamed after 4years, it will be transfered into
the Bank statutory reserve as unclaimed fund.


I have agreed that 30 % of this money will be for you while 10 % will be set
aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % will be for me.
Therefore, to enable the immediate trannsfer of this fund to your nominated
account, I need the following details.
Your Full Name. Your Bank Name. Your private telephone No. Your Fax No.



Please note that upon receipt of your reply, I will immediately send to you
by fax or email the text of the application. I will also not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and you shouldn't
entertain any fear as all necessary arrangements on how this fund will be
transfered into your private nominated Bank account in your country has
smoothly been arranged by me here. You should contact me immediately as soon
as you receive this letter.

Best regards.

Mr Louis Migan
President/CEO
DIRECT LINE.NO.00229-97325977
Email miganfinancial@alexandria.cc/miganfinancial@yahoo.com

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