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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:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • williamkenneth1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: william kenneth <w-kenneth1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <williamkenneth1@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:20:03 +0100
Subject: My good Friend



My good FriendThis letter may come to you as a surprise since it is coming from someone you have not met before. However, we decided to contact you based on a satisfactory information we had as regard business information concerning your country and the safety of our funds in a steady economy such as that of your country compared to our country Burkina Faso .I am a civil chief adviser currently working with the monitoring committee overseeing the winding up of the Cotton and Gold trust fund (CGTF). I and my close and trusted colleagues need your assistance in the investment under the transfer of US$25.3million into any reliable Account you may nominate overseas. This fund was generated from over-invoicing of contracts executed by the CGTF under the administration past Section. These were discovered while we were reviewing the CGTF accounts.
Actually, we had succeeded in transferring the part sum (US$5.3M) to unreliable and untrustworthy person who short down his account and ran away with the fund.

However, if you really willing to do this with me with a sincere mind, you are going to act as a Next of Kin to him since all the Documents has made on his behalf and past to the Africa Development Bank responsible for the Transfer .

Meanwhile, this transaction will not take more than 14working banking days as soon as you Apply as a Next of kin to him . Bear in mind this is Order and pure transfer .

You are to express your sincerity and capability towards the sum of US$20M ( TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ) that is left. I wait your response through mailbox : williamkenneth1@hotmail.com , for security reason.Regards,William Kenneth
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