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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: mousa abdulkarim <mousa_abdulkarim0016@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mousa_abdulkarim_1@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:07:36 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL



FROM THE DESK OF MR.MOUSA ABDULKARIM THE MANAGER AUDIT AND ACCOUNT AVENUE DELA RESISTANCE DU 17 MAI BANK OF AFRICA. BURKINA FASO.01 BP 362 FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OUAGADOUGOU ,01 BURKINA FASO. Dear FriendI am Mr Mousa Abdulkarim the bill and exchange manager at the foreign remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.I got your contact from the internet, while seaching for an honest andtrust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Five million and five hundred thousand UnitedStates Dollars (USD25.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank.The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner late Mr Salla khatif from Lebanese, who was involved in the December 25th 2003 Benin plane crash.Hereistheaircrashwebsiteonfiltered=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.htmlThe said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank.Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next if kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot releaseit unless somebody applies for it as next of kin orrelation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we learntthat all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at theplane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed 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 occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and aBurkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.I thereforesoliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.I have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services rendered, 60% would be for me while 10% will be for expencses incured during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will proceed immediately to your country for our own share of the money. I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know thati am Bank official. Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and secreceirity involved. Yours faithfully,Mr MousaAbdulkarim
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