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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)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: watara_ahmed02@hotmail.fr
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:27:22 +0000
Subject: PLEASE DO REPLY / CALL 00226 78059597


>From Mr. Watara Ahmed.
Bill & Exchange Manager
African Development Bank
Ougadougou Burkina Faso
W/Africa Phone Number (00226 78059597)

DEAR FRIEND,



Pls i want you to read this letter very carefully and i must apologize for
barging
this message into your mail box without any formal introduction due to the
urgency
and confidential of
this issue and i know that this message will come to you as a surprise,
Pls this
is not a joke and i will not like you to joke with it.
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client crude oil dealer MR.HUS BEN AN
AMERICAN
who was with the Iraqi oil industries and also
oil supplier to republic of Burkina Faso made a numbered fixed deposit for18
calendar months, with a value of fitteen million two hundred Thousand
United State
Dollars($m15.2,000,000,00)
only in our bank.

Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war which
began in
2003. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no
response came
from him.

We laterfind out that the oil dealer MR HUS BEN along with hiswife and
only daughter had
been killed during the war in a bomb blast thathit their home.

You can read more about the bombings on
visiting these sites below:

http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/19/03


After further investigation it was also discovered that MR.HUS BEN did not
declare
any next of kin in his official papers including the paperwork of his bank
deposit. And he also
confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me
knew of his
deposit in our bank So I need your urgent assistance in transferring the
sum of
($15.2)millions usd
into your bank accountwithin 7working banking days. What bothers me most
is that
according to the laws of country A burkinabe cannot come out and claim
this fund.
I don't want the money
to go into our Bank treasure as an abandonedfund. So this is the reason why
i
contacted you so that our bank will release thismoney to you as the next
of kin to the deceased customer.


Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete
it if you

are not interesting.
Upon the receipt of your reply and indication of your capability, iwill
give you
full details on how the business will be executed and also note thatyou
will have
35% of the above
mentioned sum if you agree to handle this businesswith me while 55% will
be for me
and 10% for any expenses that may arise on the process, Because i don't want
anyone here in our bank to
know my involvement until you confirm this fund into your account and ask
me to
come over for the sharing as iindicated.


Then after i will Ritired from our bank and come over to you contry for
disbursement acconding to the percentage indicated. therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to
you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of
kin of
the deceased, Please, dont entertain any atom of fear because the
transaction is
100% risk free. Note
that, to be relation with the deceased or not will notimpose or prevent
you to
claim the money, the fact is that whatever information we will present to
the bank
should be accurate.
Rests assured that I will provide all the necessary information which the
bank may
require from you during the process to make sure everything goes well and
fast.

Mr Watara Ahmed (00226 78059597)

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