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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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: =?utf-8?q?Nana=20Martins?= <nanamartins002@yahoo.com.ve>
Reply-To: nanamartins1964@live.com
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compliments of the day .


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:nanamartins002@yahoo.com.ve

Compliments of the day .

- I am Mr. Nana Martins ,chief co-porate officer in the Account and Audit Department of Eco Bank Intl Ltd Accra,Ghana.I am writting to seek your coperation over this transaction,after the annual auditing of the year 2007,I discovered an abandoned sum of $3.5M USD in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United States of America. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately,all his upposed next of kin or relation died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It's therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you to make sure his balance of fund will be released to you via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money could go into the Federal treasury as "unclaimed Bill". The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after four years, the money will be transfered into the federal treasury as onclaimed fund. . The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Ghananian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree to offer you 30% of this money as my foreign partner as soon as we conclude the transfer into your account. 10% will be set aside for expences incurred during the transfer and 60% would be for me, Please, visit the website below for more informations about the Plane Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY. SITE.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html ,Yours Sincerely, Mr Nana Martins

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