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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)
  • "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: "Mr. Philipe Koulo" <mani_willy2003@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: philipe_koulo@myway.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:40:20 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention please

Dear Friend,

How are you and family doing? My name is Mr. Philipe Koulo, I am the Bill and Exchange Manager in a prime bank here in Cote d'Ivoire West Africa.I have a business proposal which I want to disclosed you. During the Auditing of last year 2006, I discovered an abounded sum of $6.5M that belongs to
our customer Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American prominent man who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31st 2000.

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this sums of money left behind by my late client out from the bank to your provided account, he executed contract through Department of Works and Housing here in my country and the mentioned money above is his money left in our bank before his
death, We have tried to locate his relation to whom we could transfer the fund but all effort to get his relation was nil,it is upon this recovery I decided to contact you so that you stand as his family relatives for the Bank to transfer the money into your Bank account,Meanwhile, for the
smoothness of this transaction, we will share the fund 60%/40% If you know that you are interested and capable to handle this business transaction,reply urgently so that I will immediately draft an application form which you will fill and send directly to the office of Director Foreign
remittance Department,by so doing the application will make you the bornfire Beneficiary of the above money, I will give you all information's necessary. Note that the transaction is very free no risk involved and you have to follow my instructions till the money hit your bank account.
I solicit for your confidentiality and utmost secret in this business.

Yours
Faithfully,
Mr. Philipe Koulo.




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