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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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 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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: hamzat hakeem <hamzathakeem02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <hamzat_58@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:46:16 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR HAMZAT HAKEEM,



FROM THE DESK OF MR HAMZAT HAKEEM.BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGERB.O.A INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICAN .OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,WEST AFRICA.Dear Friend,I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of B.O.A BANK OF AFRICA Internationale Du Burkina. I am writing following the impressive information about you through on of my friends who runs a consultancy firm here in Burkina Faso. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business proposal (Fund Transfer into Your Account).However,i got your contact in earnest search through the internet,when i am looking for reliable someone who could assist me to handle this transaction with sincere mind and fully cooperation. In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $30 Million USD (THIRTY Million US Dollars) only, in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Mount Kenya on the 07/02/2003, East Africa,(thrill of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro) the Late Dr.George Brumley, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America, and contractor in West Africa also with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES).(For reference and confirmation see the web site of the plane crash).http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlSince we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be release till when somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed next of kin died along-side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you via, into your foreign bank account as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it so that this money could not go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after two years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.I agreed to offer you 40% of this money as my foreign partner as soon as we conclude up the transaction, being in respect to the provision of your foreign account. While 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 55% would be for me.There after I will come over to your country for sharing and disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money will be remitted into.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of application which you shall fill in and submit to the office of the foreign remittance director of the Banque Internationale Du Burkina for the onward transfer of the fund into your nominated bank account. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is strictly confidential and I will use my position in the Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund into your nominated bank account.Please, visit the website below for more information’s about the Plane Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late Dr.George Brumley. For reference and confirmation see the web site of the plane crash).http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlYours Faithfully,MR HAMZAT HAKEEMBill AND Exchange Manager,B.O.A.BANK OF AFRICA INTERNATIONALE DU BURKINA.
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