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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment" (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 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • alexya_ti@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Alex Yati <alexyati02@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: alexya_ti@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:01:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME


Dear Friend,

My Name is ALEX YATI, managing director of Diamond Security & Storage
Company here in Accra, Ghana. In my department, I discovered an
abandoned consignment worth over the sum of US$12.7million dollars,
which belongs to our foreign customer, LATE MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany who died along with his entire family in July 31 2000, in a plane crash.

Below is a website which I will appreciate you to go through and read the information.

<<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>>

Since then, I have made several inquiries to locate any of his extended
relatives but all effort has proved abortive.

The reason why I am contacting you is based on trust to enable me
present you as the next-of-kin to him so this consignment will be released to
you for safety and subsequent disbursement.

Nobody has come to our company for claiming of the consignment.
It will be easy to convince the company since I am in possession of the
necessary legalized documents that back-up the consignment and which
will present you as the rightful next-of-kin to the deceased customer. I
don't want this consignment to go into company's treasury as unclaimed bill.

The company laws and guidelines stipulates that if such consignment
remains unclaimed after eight years, the company will confiscate it.

The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this transaction is
occasioned by the fact that late ANDREAS was a foreigner and any
indigence cannot stand as next-of-kin to a foreigner.

All I require is your honest co-operation 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.

I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of your assistance , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the transaction, another 5% to help the less privilege and to assist the
charity organizations here in Africa and abroad while the rest 50% will
be for me.

Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate release of
this consignment, you must apply to the company as the relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your complete information, complete name,
postal address, occupation, your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the consignment will be
released to.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application you will send to the company to seek the release of the
consignment to you.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as all required
arrangements have been made. You should contact me as soon as you
receive this mail. My email address is alexya_ti@yahoo.co.uk

Or you can send your number for me to call you. Trusting to hear from
you immediately for more detailed discussion.

Regards,
ALEX YATI.

Managing Director,
Diamond Security & Storage Company
Accra, Ghana.

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