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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:
  • "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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: jean mason <jamey60@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <finesse_jasm1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:19:02 +0100
Subject: Mr Jean Mason



Mr Jean MasonForeign Remittance Department ManagerBanque of AfricaAbidjan,Cote D'Ivoire.West Africa.
I am Mr Jean Mason the trustee and financial manager to late Mr. Mohamed Mohd. I am also the present Foriegn Remittance Department Manager of Banque of Africa, Abidjan branch,Cote D'Ivoire. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you as a result of what I presently have at hand.On 25th December 2003, Mr. Mohamed Mohd, a Lebanese investor in Abidjan , Cote D'Ivoire was among the plane crash victims of Boeing727-type, Air plane of African Transport Union (UTA) crashed on 25th December 2003 at the Fidjrosse beach Abidjan,Cote D'Ivoire, 110 persons died, the Beirut-bound flight victims were mostly Lebanese nationals and few westerners. Over 40 others still reported missing as at then, while 22 passengers survived. Here is the air crash website= http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html. Shortly after his death , his relatives arrived Abidjan,Cote D'Ivoire and I handed over every of his other accounts information within African development bank except this very account file I withheld to divert the sum. I seek your consent to present you as Next of kin to the deceased so that the sidetracked Account valued at 15.5 Million Euro (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro) of late Mr. Mohamed Mohd could be remitted to your account as his Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed percentage. All I require from you is your honest co-operation and trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. To enable us discuss further about this transaction, do contact me. With best regards, Mr Jean Mason.
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