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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "dr_issa_khalam02 Gazeta.pl" <dr_issa_khalam02@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:47:40 +0100
Subject: Repply me immediately


From: Dr Issa Khalam

Attention please,

I am Dr Issa Khalam the A
bank manager of BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA
BRANCH.

I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that
you will keep this as top secret. don't be scared or surprised, i am the
manager of BANK OF AFRICA and i have an opportunity to transfer sum of
US$10.5MILLION (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLARS) .
I
have the courage to look for a reliable and Honest Person who will be
capable for this important business Transaction, believing that you will
never let me down either now or in Future. The owner of this account is
JOSEPH F. GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of
petrol chemical
service, a chemical engineer by Proffession.He died in
world trade
center as a victim of the September 11,2001 Incident that befall the
United State of America, the bank has made series of efforts to contact
any of the relatives to claim this money but without success, you can
confirm through this website:

http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID6
0

And my Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not
know anything About this account.

I want to transfer this money into
a safe foreign account abroad but I Don't know any foreigner,I know
that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
ourselves before, but be sure that it is real And A Genuine transaction.
hope that you will never let me down in this transaction, at the
conclusion of this business, you will be giving 30% of the total amount,
70% will be for me. I look forward to your earliest reply by email for
more details Thanks.

Best regards
Dr Khalam

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam