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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: usman bello <us_bel7@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <b_usman112@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:55:03 +0200
Subject: Mr. Bello Usman.



My Dear,My name is Bello Usman, I am the Director of Audit Unit, one of the local Banks here, .A Brazilian Oil Consultant/Contractor with the Ivoirien Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr.Mauricio Jose made a reasonable Fix deposit with our Branch. Upon maturity as his Credit Officer, we sent on a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. Aftera month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Ivorian Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr.Mauricio Jose is died. all attempts to trace his next of kin was failed. Again, I made further investigation and discovered that the deceased did not declare any next of kin or relations at the time of deposit. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner since you bear the same name Jose to stand in as the next of kin to the deceased. The Bank will approve thisfund to any foreigner because the former operator of the account is a foreigner, and I am certainly sure that he is dead . A foreigner can only claim this fund with legal claims to the account Holder in good collaboration with me and my two colleagues here in the Bank.If interested, get back to me to enable me give you further details through my private email as follows Finally, your assisting percentage will be as agreed upon your response to assist.Yours,Mr. Bello Usman.
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