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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • iddris_hassane01@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: iddris hassane <iddris_hassane19@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <iddris_hassane01@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:09:00 +0000
Subject: FORM IDDRIS/ DDRIS CHAMBERS NOTARY PUBLIC URGNET ATTENTION



FROM:BARRISTER.IDDRIS HASSANE IDDRIS. IDDRIS & IDDRIS ASSOCIATE.(NOTARY PUBLIC)
Dear Friend.
With great pleasure I am writing this proposal on behalf of my associates,I apologize for any inconveniences.But However, your address was secured through my search in the internet for a reliable and capable hand to handle a transaction of this magnitude. I obtained your profile from ICQ business website and became aware of your credibility and integrity. due to the sensitivity of this transaction and my commitment as anattorney.
I am Barrister IDDRIS HASSANE IDDRIS personal Attorney to William Barnes, a foreigner, Geologist by profession and The owner of cadbury manufacturing Company here in Burkina Faso, he died since 1999, in an EgyptAir Flight 990, on the 31st October along with other passengers on board. For your perusal,you can confirm this from the website below :-http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm Before his death, he has a huge sum of $9,500.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand USD) which no other person know about.Consequently the management team of the Central Bank (BCEAO),Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso,West Africa. has recently issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the investment deposits confiscated by the end of this quarter in their financial calendar of 2007.
The request of foreigner as next of Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
This is why I have contacted you to render assistance in repatriating the money and properties left behind by my client, before they will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by this Bank. As his personal Attorney, I am in possession of all legal documents, which shows the entire transaction between him and the bank of africa in relation to this fund deposit.
I want to first transfer $5,000.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer the remaining (4.500M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here.
My constraint is to be able to source a foreign partiner who is honest and trustworthy individual, that will act as trustee and willing to assist me in this transaction, your share as compensation will be (35%) while (5%) for tax and other miscellaneous expenses.
This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.I guarantee you that the entire transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as all documents that will be required by the Bank Of Africa.
My intention of writing you through email is because I believe it is very confidential.Hoping that you will understand and assist effectively for the success of this transaction and looking forward to hear from you.
Though this approach appears desperate, I can assure you that whatever questions you would need to ask or any other thing you will need to know regarding this proposal will be adequately answered to give you a clearer understanding of it, so as to arrive at a successful conclusion.

N.B: Please reply me on my private email address: iddris_hassane01@myway.com
Best Regards,
Barrister IDDRIS HASSANE IDDRIS (esq) Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso. West Africa.
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