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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mike miyaki" <mikemiyaki06@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:27:08 -0700
Subject: Urgent Business Proposal


From the desk of Mike Miyaki
ICB Ghana.



Attn:

It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance, and you should consider it
very important. This is an opportunity i would want us to utilize well. I am
Mr Mike Miyaki, an officer in charge of Auditing and Accounting section with
International commercial bank LTD Ghana, and also a Relationship Account
Officer to Dr Salim Chidiac, a Lebanese.



He was a Seasoned Contractor with Ghana Cement Company in Ghana Republic,
who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight
Boeing 727 in Benin republic in December 25, 2003. You will read more
stories about the crash on visiting this

website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/Africa /12/26/Benin.crash/


Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Dr Salim Chidiac, has a fixed
deposit account with the bank and no other person knows about this account
or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him
in the crash. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.



After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you. I
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank to the
government. Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 7 weeks now. I seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account
valued at US$12.5 million can be paid to you and then you and me can share
the money in proportion 70% to me and 30% to you.



I sincerely request 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 and me from any breach of the
law. while it will take only 14 working days the funds will be in your
nominated Bank account. you should forward the following information to me
for a quicker communication.



A. Your Full Name
B. Private telephone and fax number
C. Your Full location Address.

Yours Sincerely.
Mike Miyaki.

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