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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:
  • "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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is highly confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "prince willy" <prince-willie3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:31:14 +0000
Subject: A CONFIDENTIAL REQUEST



A
CONFIDENTIAL REQUEST.

I deem it vital to contact you for a business proposal based on my position
as the Accountant General of the African Development Bank Accra Ghana.During
our QUARTERLY AUDITING/ACCOUNTING,I discovered in a DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT
favoring a foreign customer,The floating sum of US$15,000,000(fifteen
million US dollars).

During my investigations on the abandoned sum,I discovered the owner as a
GERMAN citizen named Mr.ANDREAS SCHRANNER who died in a plane crash with his
entire family and subsequently there is no next of kin to his account.Visit
the web-site as posted dated.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Based on these factual statements,Plus the available facts and figures in
the bank archives,we stand on a vantage point to putting up a claim on the
fund.This providential mission is hinged on the fact that,it is only a
foreigner that can successfully claim this fund since the late depositor was
a foreigner himself.

What you are required to do is to put up an application to the bank as his
nominated next of kin by his extended family in GERMANY which is a workable
approach because you will stand by the power of such nomination as his
cousin resident in where you are today to claim this fund into your account
for both of us.

Any questions,Information that may be required by the bank during the
process of the reclamation will be forwarded to you on demand as to ensure
that this venture is successful.It is highly confidential and risk free by
virtue of my position as an insider in the bank.

Finally, I shall give you 30% in respect of your assistance to get these
funds transfered into your account overseas.I will release to you a detailed
information covering the abandoned funds on your urgent reply.
There is no banking and legal implications.

Mr.Williams.N. Kay.
00 233 2438 29241.

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