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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Shafiqur Rahman Adhami" <adhami_1942@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <shafiqurrahman_adhami@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:40:22 +0400
Subject: Head of FI/Synd/MNC First Gulf Bank Abu-Dhabi UAE




FROM THE DESK OF MR. SHAFIQUR RAHMAN ADHAMIHEAD, FI/SYND/MCNFIRST GULF BANK, ABU DHABIUNITED ARAB EMIRATE (U.A.E.)Dear brother,I am Shafiqur Rahman Adhami, Head of FI/Synd/MNC First Gulf Bank Abu-Dhabi UAE, I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. An American Oil consultant and contractor with the Shell Dev Company, Mrs Judith Bowman of Huntington Beach California made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$6,000,000.00 (Six Million United State Dollars) in my bank. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the SHELL DEV CO that Mrs. Judith Bowman died in a plane crash in Egypt Air Flight 990, 1999 air crash (for more information about this crash and person you can contact this website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stmSince we got this information about her deat!
h and on further investigation, I found out that she died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace her next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that she did not declare any kin or relations in all her official documents, including her Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.This sum of US$6,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of United Arab Emirates, at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the (U.A.E) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mrs Judith Bowman so that the fruits of her labor will not get into the hands of the government . This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that I can make some !
changes in her file immediately to purport you as her next of kin. A b
ank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.More details and my laid down strategy to realize this deal will be sent to you upon your response.Awaiting your urgent reply.Regards.Mr.Shafiqur Rahman Adhami
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