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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Johnson Keyamorroh" <jkeyamo1@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:52:56 +0100
Subject: Urgent Approval Needed


Good day,

Urgent Business Proposal.



I am the Director of Bill and Exchange at the foreign remittance

Department of Bank of Africa Madagascar (B.O.A). I am writing to seek your
cooperation over this business deal. In my Department, I discovered an
abandoned sum of (US $3.5 Million US Dollars). 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, The account belongs to the Late DR.
GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but
naturalized in South Africa and contractor with Anglo Gold.



Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his

next of kin or business associate to come and claim his money because it
cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or business
associate to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately, all his supposed next of kin or relation died along with him
at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. You can read more
about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html it is
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to your account as the next of kin or
business associate.



The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money

remains dormant after four years; the money will be transferred into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen is highly needed to release this fund. I
will like us to share this money mutually on two equal halves between me and
you. Please note that I don't have any access to withdraw any cent from this
money due to the money was insured by the owner DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY. I will
indulge you at this point to understand that this is privileged information
and must be strictly confidential. Please reply to this,



Email address: jkeyamo1@alumni.com

Best Regards

J. H. Keyamorroh.

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