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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:
  • "from the desk of" (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)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: kaburo musa <kaburo_musa69@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <kaburo_1musa@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:00:29 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF Mr. KABURO MUSA



FROM THE DESK OF Mr. KABURO MUSA
THE PRESENT MANAGER OF AUDITING
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (A D B)
OUAGADOUGOU , BURKINA FASO
Greetings to you,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. My name is Mr. kaburo musa, the present Manager of Auditing Department of Our bank here in Burkina Faso .

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, Ihave a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance isrequired as a foreigner.,In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$15.m(Fifteen million united states dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his wife and and children in the 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 the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this usiness proposals to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner, I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreigner partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account. 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me. After which I shallvisit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as I have arranged,you will furnished me with a good receiving account details where the money will betransfered,your private tel and fax number for easy communication. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a text of the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreign remittance manager,for easy execution of the transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free on both side. I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in
percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied

Contact me assoon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together,so we cango over the details.
Thanking you in advance and May God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.
I wait your urgent response.
Best Regards
Mr. kaburo musa
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