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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • georgetorresbakaryxx@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "george torres bakary" <georgetorresbakary26@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: georgetorresbakaryxx@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:19:20 +0000
Subject: HELLO KING

HELLO KING

Good Day

My name is Mr.george torres bakary, a Banker and accountant with BIAO bank
here in Abidjan,Cote d'ivoire. I am the personal accounts manager to
Engr.Kevin Chang King, a National of your country, who used to work with an
oil servicing company here in Cote Ivoire. My client, his wife, and their
three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the
coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all passengers on board died.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of
my clients extended relatives but has beenunsuccessful. After
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the
internet,to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you. Of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here
in,where the deceased has an account valued at about (USD$ 16.5 million US
dollars).

They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will
declare the account unservicable and thereby send the funds to the bank
treasury. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
the last two years now, I will seek your consent to present you as the next
of kin of the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the
proceeds of this account valued at (USD$ 16.5 million US dollars) can be
paid to you and then we can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. If you can
handle this with me, reach me immediately through my piivate email address
(georgetorresbakaryxx@yahoo.com) and please include full names and
address,date of birth and your phone numbers for more discussions.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation,

GEORGE TORRES BAKARY.

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