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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)
  • "million 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: anthonio_brumley@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:17 +0530 (IST)
Subject: URGENT POSTIVE RESPONSE IS NEEDED.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: anthoniobrumley02@yahoo.in



- Dear Friend,It is my sincere pleasure at this moment to exhibit my total trust bestowed on you in accordance to my Proposed partnership relationship with you of which i am fully convinced that you will really welcome my partnership with you in this transaction. My name is Anthonio Brumley, the Audit and Account Director of African Development Bank Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso.In my department, during the Auditing of the year 2007, I discovered an abounded sum of $1,500,000Dollars that belongs to our Late Mr. Micheal Brumley, a French National who unfortunately lost his life in an auto crash dated Sept 3rd,2006.I desperately need your assistance to secure and Transfer this huge sums of money left behind by my late client to the tune of $1.5Million Dollars, (One Million Five Hundred Thousands United States Dollars) out from my Bank AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Ouagadougou Burkina Faso into your Foreign Bank account that would be Provided in the Application. In other words,The Dece!
ased executed contract through Department of Work and Housing here in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso and the mentioned Funds above is his Savings left behind in our bank before his death.Meanwhile,all I am expecting from you, as a matter of greatest urgency and importance is your sincerity and Honesty as i have some of the Needed Legal Documents to prove that this Business is Lawful for its onward RemmittanceTherefore,i want you to express your interest to engage in this Business with me because your share is 40% of the Funds in Question so that i can send to you the OFFICIAL LETTER OF CLAIM which you have to Fill and send to the E-mail Address of the Bank.Moreso,I urgently want you to send all your Personal Informations to me as soon as you receive this PROPOSAL inorder to show your readiness and Willingness in this Proposed Business.As soon as possible all these Personal Datas are received, i would guide you further as you have to keep this Proposal confidential and secret fro!
m your Relations,Partners and Colleaques for our success because the b
asis of this Business is Secrecy.I promise you that i would protect your Personal Interest as this Business is 100% risk-free.Yours Faithfully,Anthonio Brumley.

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