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

Fraud email example:

From: "hansin_omar021 Gazeta.pl" <hansin_omar021@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: omarhansin@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:48:26 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED.


*From The Desk Of HANSIN OMAR.
The Head Of File Department,
African Development Bank (A.D.B).
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso West Africa.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm. *

* **("REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
(CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")*
*
Compliments Of The Season,
** Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and
may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent
and writing through this channel.**I got your contact from the proffesional
data base found in the internet Yahoo tourist search.When i was searching
for a foreign reliable partner.* *I assured of your capability and
reliability to champion this business opportunity.

After series of prayers/fasting.i was divinely directed to contact you
among other names found in the data base Yahoo tourist search.I believe that
God has a way of helping who is in need.

I am (HANSIN OMAR),the Head of file Department in African development
bank (ADB).* *In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15 million
U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
(Monday 31st July 2000) in a plane crash. *
**
*Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over 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, but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.*
**
* It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official 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 for it and we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.**The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven
years, the money will be transferred 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 a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 40% of this money will be for you
as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 60%
would be for me and my woman colleague. That means ($6 million) six million
dollars for you,and ($9 million) nine million dollars for me and my partner.
*
**
*There after i 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 relations or
next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy 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. *
*Your's faithfully, *
**
*HANSIN OMAR**.**
FROM (ADB) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.
GOD BLESSINGS,PROTECTIONS AND GUIDIANCE TO YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY.

(FILL THIS FORM BELLOW PLEASE AND RESEND IT TO ME).

1) Your Full Name.............................
2) Your Age.......................................
3) Marital Status................................
4) Your Cell Phone Number..............
5) Your Fax Number.......................
6) Your Country................................
7) Your Occupation............................
8) Sex................................................
9) Your Religion.................................
10) Your Private E-mail Adress...........

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to
move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very
well over this business.*

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