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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: George Kouma <georgekouma11@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <georgekouma3@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:13:30 +0100
Subject: URGENT MASSAGE FROM MR. GEORGE KOUMA



Dear Friend, How are you today? Hope all is well,I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, but you need not to worry as i use this way to contact you it is due to is only means i can reach you confidentially as a foreign to seek for for your assistance in this matter. My name is Mr.George kouma I am the manager audit and account department of our bank, (A.D.B) uagadougou Burkina Faso Infect I kindly made up my mind to contact you to transfer the sum of nineteen million, three hundred thousand United States dollars ($19,300,000.00 U.S DOLLARS) into your bank account and this fund was abandoned and left unclaimed with our bank since the real owner died.
The money belongs to our customers who died few years ago with all his family members, moreover it is a current joint-account between him and his wife whereas they endorsed their children to be their successor in case of any problem occurred to them but unfortunately sudden death took away all his children and i requested your assistance to apply to our bank as the NEXT-OF-KIN to the foreign deceased customer of our bank Since our bank got information about his death,the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money but no body have show up as his next of kin for the claim because the account is untraceable and the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines
For the success of this transaction, i will like you to apply to bank and act as the only existing NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased which our bank will replace the deceased account information through proper documentation in position of your own account.This transaction is risk-free,it will never harm your good reputation in your society because no one can trace the account, and on the instant of the transfer of the fund into your account, the chapter of this transaction will be closed entirely.

Note that in a business of this nature, the bank don't want to know your difference between the deceased country, religion or believe because our bank inheritance law is against that. So, it is a preference for us achieve this success without any problem.
Please note down that once the fund get transferred into your account, you will take 40% while i will take 60% of the total sum and i will resign from work and come over to your country once the fund hits your account and i will still need your assistance to direct me for business investment in your country and you are the once to issue me a letter of invitation or visa immediately the fund get transferred please If you are willing to assist me in this transaction you are to go ahead and reply this mail immediately so that i will let you know the next step to follow immediately in order to finalize this transaction in a period of time.

If you are interested in this transaction ,you are to go ahead and reply this mail immediately with the following information so that I will let you know the next step to follow immediately in order to finalize this transaction in a period of time.
Your full name, address, phone and fax numbers, occupation, Your nationality and your photograph for more details and how to transfer the fund into you bank account.
I am expecting your reply soonext so that we can procceed

Yours sincerely,Mr George kouma
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