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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • partrickandrew@breakthru.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3apartrickandrew@breakthru.com

Fraud email example:

From: "andrew partrick" <partrick@norilsk.biz>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:59:05 +0200
Subject: CAN I TRUSTH YOU.


From The Desk Of Mr Partrick
Bill And Exchange Manager
Bank Of Africa BENIN REPUBLIC.
E -mail:partrickandrew@breakthru.com <mail%3Apartrickandrew@breakthru.com>.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of BANK OF AFRICA.I am writting to seek your coperation over this business
deal.In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $14million USD
(Fourtheen Million United States Dollars) only, in an acount 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.Nicole
Alexandre,a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but naturalised in
Benin Republic, West Africa and contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
OF WEST AFRICAN STATES) .

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 release to that
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
asindicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now
decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money 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 Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after 7 years, the money will be transfered into the Bank's
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreigner 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 Benin cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.40 % of
this money will be for you as my foreign partner,in respect to the provision
of a foreign account. 5 % will be set aside for expences incured during the
business and 55 % would be for me.Then after the transfer have been made I
will come over to your country for disbursement accordingly 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 the relation or next of kin to
the deceased,indicating your claims and where in the money will be
remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of application which you will fill and forward to the office of the
foreign remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is strictly confidential and i will use
my position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on my
private E -mail:partrickandrew@breakthru.com<mail%3Apartrickandrew@breakthru.com>.
Trusting to hear from you immediately 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.Nicole Alexandre.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html


Yours Faithfully,
Partrick Andrew.

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