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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:
  • "requires utmost trust" (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.
  • chiyemego2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: chiyemego <chiyemego@gadball.com>
Reply-To: chiyemego100@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:29:03 -0700
Subject: Your Response Is Needed.



Your Response Is Needed.

Good Day Dear,

I am Mr. Chiyem Ego, Executive Director, Account, Treasury and
international Operations of SPRING BANK, I am contacting you to stand

as the next of kin to my late customer Mr. Kurt Kahle who hales from
Germany, Mr. Kurt Kahle has an escrow account with our bank for years
now, on our auditing week I discovered an abandoned sum of $13.7mil
that was in one of his account with out claim since his death.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Kurt Klaus Kahle, 51, died in the crash at Haberstock Munich with his
37-year-old wife and son Michael, aged eight.He is a private business
investor, Mr. Kurt Kahle has an escrow account with our bank SPRING
BANK Value 13.5million usd, I have contacted you to assist in securing
this money before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank.

Attempts has been madetwice by Government Agency to confiscate this
account since the expiration of the five years, if not for my
intervention as the head account and audit dept and that is the reason
i request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and after the successful
transfer of this funds $13.7mil you will be entitled to 45% of the
total sum, 50% for me and the balance of 5% will be used to reimburse
our elves for expenses that we may incur in this transaction.

Note that this transaction requires utmost trust sincerity and
confidentiality. Do get back to me only through my private
email:chiyemego2@yahoo.fr and this information below to enable me
draft a text of application that you will need to submit to the bank
applying as the next of kin to Mr.Kurt Kahle.

Full Name:.................................
Age:........................................
Phone Number:..................................
Fax:............................................
Address:.........................................
Sex:..............................................
Occupation:........................................

I will be expecting an email from you to confirm the acceptance of
this transaction and to onfirm the acknowledgement of the
proposal.Thanks and have a pleasant day.

Best regards,
Mr. Chiyem Ego.

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