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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Blaise Tallah" <blaisetallah2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:49:35 +0000
Subject: FROM MR BLAISE TALLAH.


FROM MR BLAISE TALLAH.
TEL +22507801777.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE . (WEST AFRICA).
PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH THIS EMAIL :
irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr<http://fr.mc282.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr>



Dear Sir/Madam,

With due respect and humility, I write to you this proposal.I am the manager
of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Banque
Internationale du Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive
information about you through my research in Internet search.In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$8.5m US dollars (Eight
million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
November 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we Lent
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to
make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next
of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming forth and we dint want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

According to our Banking policies and guideline here which stipulates that
if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will
automatically be transfer ed into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The
request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Ivorian cannot stand as next
of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 15 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5 % will be for reimbursement
of any expenses in cured during the curse of the transaction and 80 % would
be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easier and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer . You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. PLEASE REPLY ME
THROUGH THIS EMAIL :
irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr<http://fr.mc282.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=irdept_biaoci@yahoo.fr>

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

FROM: MR BLAISE TALLAH.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN.

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