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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Adrie SULU <adri_su017@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <s.adrie@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:30:05 +0000
Subject: FROM: Mr. Adrie SULU



FROM: Mr. Adrie SULUFOREIGN REMITTANCE MANAGER.BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO. Dear Friend, STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am the FOREIGN REMITTANCE MANAGER of Group Bank of African B.O.A,AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW, I got your impressive information through an international business equiry HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO, I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our bothfamilies. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($12.6 million) Twelve Millon six Hundred Thousand US Dollars immediately to your account. The money has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here without any body coming for it. I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died a long with his family in air crash since February 16,1998. I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so that my Bank will release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 30% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business. I want you to know that I never master minded the death of the deceased fellow. Their death was occured Naturally.Please View this website:/www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/ Thanks and waiting for your urgent response,Best RegardsMr. Adrie SULUFOREIGN REMITTANCE MANAGER B.O.A BANK OF AFRICA,
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