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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mr_allahidanladi33@yahoo.fr" <mr_allahi44@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mr_allahidanladi33@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:30:30 +0000
Subject: CALL ME PLEASE +226 76 43 99 61.


*Dear Friend,


My Name is Mr. ALLAHI MUSA DANLADI. the Auditing & Account Manager-B O A. In
my department we discovered an abandoned sum of (U.S$12.5M Dollars. ) **I am
writing in respect of a Switzerland Citizen customer of my bank Mr. Amposta
Mathieu, dual citizen of Switzerland, who died in a Plane crash on Monday
2nd September 1998.

Please see for more information. **
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html
*<http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html>


*The late Mr. Amposta Mathieu left in our deposit the sum of U.S$12.5m
Dollars (Twelve million five hundred thousand USD) and nobody will ever come
for this money because he have no next of kin in his documents.

I am the only person that is aware of this money since Mr.Amposta Mathieu
did not give to my institution any next of kin to inherit his money. Now, I
want to use my position in the bank to transfer this money to your
country for investment.

The banking law and guidline here stip ulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after some years that the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as un claimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.I don,t want this money
to go away as an unclaimed fund that is why i,m contacting you to
assist me to transfer this money into your bank account over there.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision
of a foriegn account , and 60*% *would be for me Thereafter, I will visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentage 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
decea sed indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
where in the money will be remitted.

as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately so
that we can go over the details.*

*I wait Your Urgent Response.
Thanks yours Faithfully,
Mr.ALLAHI MUSA DANLADI.
*
*CALL ME PLEASE +226 76 43 99 61.*

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