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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22506934213 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr Gbata Zam <drgbatazam10@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <drgbata@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:33:28 +0200
Subject: From Dr Gbata Zam



FROM THE DESK OF BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,Dr Gbata ZamBANQUE INTERNATIONALE DE LAFRIQUE DE LOUEST BIAOABIDJAN, REPUBLIC OF COTE D,IVOIREWEST AFRICADIRECT LINE TEL +225-06-93-42-13 ATTN , I humbly crave your indulgence in sending you this mail, if the contents does not meet with your personal and business ethics, I appologise in advance.Before I proceed I would like to introduce my self to you.My name is Dr Gbata Zam, a staff of the above BANK.I have urgent and confidential business preposition for you. On July 21, 2003, an oil contractor with the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation MR George Brumley made a numbered time fixed) deposited for twelve calendar valued at $10.5m US dollars ten million, five hundred thousand U.S dollars in my branch.Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contact employers COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation that MR George Brumley, died in Air crash along with his entire family. See belowhttp://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlOn further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that MR George Brumley did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his Bank Depositpaperwork. This sum of US$10.500.000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.No one will come forward to claim it. According to the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE banking Law, at the expiration of 6 years the money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D'IVOIRE Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to MR George Brumley so that the fruits of this old man labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. As an Accountant and a staff of this BANK, What we have to do is simple if you adheir to my instructions. You will send to me your complete names, address and information's which I will secretly programme in the computer account to the file of late MR George Brumley in our bank as his registered associate before his death and who is entitle to inherit the deposit incase of his death. Then after that I will send to you by email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60% will be for me.There after I will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated, remember the transfer of this money does not matter your nationality or country of origin. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.Your'sfaithfully,Dr Gbata Zam(bill and exchange manager )
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