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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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • ky_mohamed@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "audi mohamed" <audi_mohamed002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ky_mohamed@myway.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:23:08 +0000
Subject: PLEASE URGENT

FROM THE DESK OF DR. AUDI MOHAMED
THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO.

I MAKE THIS APPEAL WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY FACTS OR OPINION
EXPRESSED BY ME ARE GIVING IN CONFIDENCE AND SOLELY FOR YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION AND USE.

I am DR. AUDI MOHAMED the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of my Bank. In my department I discovered an
abandoned
sum of US$12.5M,(Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) with
account number 14-2558-5976 that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who
died along with his wife and only daughter in a plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. You can
read
more about the crash on visiting this site
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska. It is therefore upon this
discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for our
bank
to release the money to you. You have to follow the instruction which I
will
send to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want
this
money to go into our bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained
unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The money has now stayed more than four
years
and I am preparing documentaion to prove that this money has been
transfered
to our bank treasury. It will be between me and you only that will know
that the money is not transfered into our treasure.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this transaction is
occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabé cannot stand
as
next of kin to a foreigner.In appreciation of your assistance, I am
offering
you 30% of the total sum. 5% for contingencies (cost of transfer/other
charges) likely to be incurred during the course of transaction, while
the
remaining 65% is for me.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of
the application which you will complete and forward to our bank asking
for
this money to be paid to you as the next of kin to Mr. Morris Thomson.
I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements
have
been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon
as you
receive this mail through the above email.

PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY YOU CONSIDER MY URGENT
REQUEST.
RETIREMENT.AMEN.
PLEASE FOR FURTHER INFORMATIONS AND ENQUIRIES FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME
THROUGH MY EMAIL ADRESS email: ky_mohamed@myway.com
AM AWAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE!!!
THANKS AND REMAIN BLESSED.
Yours Faithfully,
DR. AUDI MOHAMED

Tele 00226 76 50 46 88

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