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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)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: abdul_ idirisa0007 <abdul_idirisa0007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <abdul_idrisa023@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:40:14 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE!!!



ATTN: HELPER.
(STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL) FROM THE DESK OF ( MR. ABDUL IDRISA) AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT /FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B)OUAGADOUGOU -BF REQUEST FOR THE URGENT TRANSFER OF THE SUM (US$10.5million) ONLY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.
You may be surprise to receive this message from me since you don't know me in person, but for the purpose of introduction., I got your impressive information through an international business equiry .
But I respectfully insist you read crefully as I am optimistic it will open doors for unimaginable financial reward for both us. This business transaction might not fall within the wide spectrum of your business activities ,but I plead your assistance ,as your flair for profitable business is needed .
Permit me to introduce myself. I am MR. ABDUL IDRISA. the Manager of auditing and accounting unit at the foreign remittance department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK . In My department I discovered an abandoned sum of$ 10.5m US dollars . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november 2002 in a plane crash.
Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because wecannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased anindicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the planecrash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make businness proposal to you and release the money 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 the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned bythe fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, inrespect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 %will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me . There after I will visit your country with my family for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .
On your acceptance, I will send to the text of application by fax or by email which you are going to apply to the bank ; and provide materials confirmation references and inquiries regarding payment formalities from the payment Agency. I willbe handling official protocols here and expect you to undertake international responsibilities as I am assuring you of a risk free transaction provided you display maturity.
Therefore, if you are willing and interested to render the needed assistance, endeavor to reply through my email address .
Thanking you in anticipation of your kind considerations.
Yours sincerely.
MR. ABDUL IDRISA.

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