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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:17:29 +0100
Subject: Dr Cumala Ail/ Bill & Exchange Manager


Dr Cumala Ail/ Bill & Exchange Manager
=C2=A0 AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING OFFICER.=20
=C2=A0 FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.=20
=C2=A0 (BIB) BANK OF AFRICAN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0 My private email ( drcumalaail@ymail.com ) and phone (00226) 70-39=
-86-89
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
All the pleasure is for me to write this message to you in order to reque=
st your invaluable partnership for the realization of a very important bu=
siness which must be treated in greatest discretion.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
I consequently ask you to take note, without you to astonish by the choic=
e which I carry on your person by seizing this happy opportunity to make =
contact of you.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
I ask you from the start to excuse yourselves for all the nuisances which=
my mail could have caused you. But same if we do not know each other per=
sonally and that we never meet, I believe firmly that a true confidence c=
an be born from our communication and this support a true partnership bet=
ween you and me.
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
I am officer in-charge of auditing and accounting in bank of Africa in th=
e foreign remittance department here in Burkina Faso, I have be working i=
n this banking institution for more than 11years.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
The late customer MR ANDREAS SCHRAMMER was appointed ambassador to New Yo=
rk in 1993 to 1999; and a Minister for businesses and foreign affair in i=
ts country. He was a member influencing in the mediation of the relations=
between the United States and Iraq in the years 1980.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
It found death on Friday July 5, 2003 at New York in the centre commemora=
tive of cancer of Sloan-Kettering of the continuation of a crisis cardiac=
.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
During my investigation in the bank I discover that the deceased customer=
deposited the sum of $49,850,000 dollar (forty nine million eight hundre=
d an fifty thousand dollars) And I notice in the file that during the dep=
osition of this money with the bank he did not indicate is true next of k=
in to the board of directors in is paper work with the bank of Africa, af=
ter all intensive routing investigation I find out that no body have ever=
come to put claim for the released of this money.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0It is upon this I am now seizing the privilege and opportunity to c=
ontact you as to apply to the bank as a relative to the deceased customer=
.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0=20
As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into you account, =
you are entitle to 40% of the total money why 55% will be for me as the m=
oderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for measeallanouse=
expenditure that may be incur during the course of this transaction.=20
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0=20
I will urge you to go through this proposal properly and let me know if y=
ou are willing to accord me this assistance for us to achieved this golde=
n opportunity for the betterment of our life, I also want to let you know=
that this transaction is 100% risk free there is nothing for you to be a=
fraid off, all loophole have been properly taking care before contacting =
you.
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
Anxiously waiting for your prompt response to my private email ( drcumala=
ail@ymail.com ) or you can call me on my private phone (00226) 70-39-86-8=
9
=C2=A0=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0 Thanks and God bless .
=C2=A0Dr Cumala Ail/ Bill & Exchange Manager

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