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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • patrick.joel199@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: pat joel <pat_joel017@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:39:08 +0200
Subject: HELLO FROM PATRICK JOEL URGENT REPLY PLS



From The Desk Of PATRICK JOELSenior Staff In File Department,African Development Bank A.D.BOuagadougou Burkina-FasoWest Africa.This is my private e mail patrick.joel199@yahoo.comPLANE CRASH WEB SITE http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html ( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")Compliment Of The Season,On a very good day. I am (PATRICK JOEL) a seniorstaff in file department in African developent bank (ADB).I got yourcontact through google search.When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of yourcapability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to GodorAllah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15 million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an accountthat belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in (friday december 26,2003 ) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next ofkin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relationdied alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for theclaim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you andrelease the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased forsafety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dontwant this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such moneyremained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin inthis business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner,and a >Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incuredduring the business and 60 % would be for;me and my woman colleague. There after I and my colleague will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you asarranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of thedeceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
as you receive this letter. reply me with this e mail address patrick.joel199@yahoo.com immediately.
Yours faithfully,PATRICK JOEL
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