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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "danny abubaka" <danny_abubaka7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: danny_abubaka34@myway.com
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:02:22 +0000
Subject: Compliment of the season,

From: Mr danny Abubaka.
Auditor General,
Bank of Africa.
Burkina Faso ,
West Africa Region.

Dear Friend ,

Compliment of the season,

Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine. Please let this
message do not be a surprise to you because i got your contact information
and lay all the trust in you before i decided to disclose this confidential
and successful transaction to you.
I am the Accountant General and later become the Auditor General of the
above mentioned financial institution in my country.

I decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of
Nine Million United state Dollars ($9,000,000.) for our present future
success.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign
customers who died along with his entire family in Algeria Earthquake on 23
may 2003.
Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2005-2006 in other to
submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation.

Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and signed
lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of FOUR (4)
years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money
will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund. Besides,it
is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of Burkina Faso
to make the

claim of the fund.Request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for
the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account
as the Extended Relation and the
Next of Kin to the deceased.And i have made inquiries about this deceased
customer,and i have enough information for the success all i need is your
co-operation and trust,i will guild you on how to go about it.Thanks, I
expect your urgent communication,and let me know your mind.

Please,if interested,get to me immediately so as to detailed you about the
formalities involved in achieving success over this abandoned sum in our
bank.My best regards to you and your family,

Reply Fas .

Mr danny Abubaka.

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