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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (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.
  • nachaat2007@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nachaat Abdelgader <nachaat_abdelgader008@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:51:58 +0000
Subject: 44% for You



Good day, I am Mr.Nachaat Abdelgader ,the Bill & Exchange Officer at the Bill and exchange department of Bank of Africa,770 Ave Sangoule Lamzana,Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.
I discovered an abandoned sum of Ten Million five hundred sixty two thousand dollars(US$10,562,000) in a dormicillary bank account file which belong to a deceased customer of this bank ,who died in an auto accident with his wife and two children on 19th July 2003 in Bafora, a tourist village in southern Burkina Faso. It is therefore, upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you as the fund will be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it.

Our banking rules stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.I have contacted you because this project requested the participation of a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to the deceased customer base of the fact that that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
On smooth conclusion of the transaction,you will be entitled to 44% of this money for your participation as my foreign partner 55% would be for me while 1% will be for expenses incurred during the execution of the transaction.I have no doubt in my mind that we shall continue to work as partners for the common good of this transaction.

I do not need to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction demands.Please indicate your interest to assist me in this working partnership using this alternative email (nachaat2007@myway.com) Your FaithfullyMr. Nachaat Abdelgader Tel. 00226-7803-3311
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