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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance manager" (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)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "god-fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "suleman bello" <mrsuleman04@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: sulemanbello2006@myway.com
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:27:15 +0000
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME


*FROM THE DESK OF MR SULEMAN BELLO.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.(ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA.
RE-REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION USD

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Suleman Bello,from Burkina Faso in west Africa.I got your e-mail
contacts from computerised datas after my extensive search via the website
for a God-fearing and trust-worthy person to bestow this transaction which
is the only hope of our survival into his or her hands.When i got your
address,I prayed and meditated fervently over it and i commited it into the
hands of God that you should be the rightful person to help us out before I
made up my decision to contact you.

I am The Manager of Auditing Department of Our Bank ,Ouagadougou Burkina
Faso.In my department wediscovered an abandoned usd$15M( fifteen Million
United States Dollars). In an account that belongs to this our foreign
customer who died along with his wife and children in the 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 the 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 alongside with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that
I decided to make this business proposals to you and release the money to
you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want this money
to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if suchmoney remains
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner in this transaction is
necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner,I agree that 30% of this money will be
for you as foreigner partner in respect to the provision of a foreign
account.10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and
60% would be for me , after which I shall visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as I have arranged,you will furnished
me with a good receiving account details where the money will be transfered,


(a) Full name, country, address and photo (passport/driving license)
(b) Your private telephone and fax numbers for confidentiality and easy
communication.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a text of
the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreign remittance
manager,for easy execution of the transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk
free on both side. As all required arrangement have been made for the
transfer and more so all the documents backing this claim will be supplied
to you after you might have applied.Please I would like you to keep this
transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I
am a senior Bank official.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
MR.SULEMAN BELLO.

*

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