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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "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.
  • shabrice@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kra ankra" <auxug2@student.com>
Reply-To: shabrice@hotmail.fr
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:15:38 +0000
Subject: From Ms.ANGE BROOKS


From Ms.ANGE BROOKS Account Department Commercial Bank-
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ).

Dear
Compliments of the season and how are you today I hope you are fine.Before i
proceed i would like to introduce myself to you. as a banker i would like to
share this great deal to lovedone before anything.

My name is Ms.ANGE BROOKS, a staff in accounts/ operation department of A
COMMERCIAL BANK- ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE( FOMER IVORY COAST ). I have an
urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

On June 6 2000, An oil consultant / contractor with the ABIDJAN COTE
D'IVOIRE National Petrolum Corporation, Mr.ALOYSIUS HAN, made a numbered
time (fixed) deposited for twelve calendar valued at US$ 17,000,000.00
(Seventeen Million united states dollars ) in my branch. Upon maturity,
Isent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contact
employers COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum corporation that Mr.ALOYSIUS HAN,
died in a plane crash with his entire family. On further investigation, I
found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of
kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.ALOYSIUS HAN,
did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his
Bank Deposit paperwork. This sum of US$17,000,000.00 is still sitting in the
Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it.

According to the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE Law, at the expiration of 6 (six)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D'IVOIRE
Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in
as the next of kin to Mr. ALOYSIUS HAN, so that the fruits of this old man's
labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.

This is simple.
1. I will like you to provide me immediately with your full names and
address so that the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents and
affidavits, which will put you in place as the next of kin to this fixed
deposit. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the
ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you. There is no risk as all the paper work
for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as a staff
of this department, guarantees the successful execution of this deal.

If you are interested, please reply immediately and upon your response, I
shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will
help you understand the deal very well. Please observe utmost confidential,
and rest assured that this transaction would be most
profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest
my share in your country.Awaiting your urgent response via my private email
shabrice@hotmail.fr for security purpose feel free to ask me for more
detail.

Yours
Ms.ANGE BROOKS
Email
NB.Pls, keep this transaction secret from your friends and my bank till the
transfer is made

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