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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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
• 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.
  • mrjamesnana1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. James Nana" <mrjamesnana1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mr.jamesnana01@live.com
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:08:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Carefuly Read And Get Back To Me For More Detail


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrjamesnana1@yahoo.com



- Dear friend,First, I must solicit your confidence in this letter. I am Mr. Nana James, the director of Bill and Exchange Department in the Bank where i work. I am writing you this letter to seek your partnership cooperation in receiving a total amount of $17.3M (Seventeen Million Three Hundred Thousand United States dollars) which was deposited with our Bank here in Republic of Ghana. This total amount was deposited by late Mr. Andreas Schranner, a German citizen. During my Quarterly Auditing/Accounting, this said amount was discovered in a Domiciliary Account favouring our foreign customer.Mr. Andreas Schranner who died along with his wife and other passengers in Air France flight AF4590 crashed on Monday, 31 July, 2000, 13:22 GMT 14:22 UK, near Paris. On more information about the death of Mr. Andreas Schranner, SEE THE LINK BELOW(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm)Since the untimely death of Mr. Andreas Schranner and his family, the management of our bank has !
mandated my office to make several enquiries to locate any of his extended relatives, but no fruitful result was achieved as all my efforts also proved unsuccessful to locate any member of his family. Before my observation in this development, I discovered that late Mr. Andreas Schranner did not make an HEIR/WILL. The management has been deliberating on how to revert this fund to the Treasury account since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 9 years. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and my junior colleague in my department decided to seek your consent to present you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased so that we will quickly move this money out of Ghana Republic to be transfer in your account as the next of kin or relation entitled to inherit this fund.All arrangement to transfer this deposited fund has been put in place and all I require is your honest and sincere partnership co-operation to enable us see this money transferred !
into your secured account. As an insider in the bank, I have perfected
all the necessary arrangement that will back up the claim of this deposited fund and I guarantee you that this fund transfer will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law. On smooth transferred of this total deposited fund to your providing account, you will be entitled to your own share of the total sum as gratification. We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as our receiving partner, while 80% would be for me and my junior colleague. Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement and further investment plans.You have been advised to keep this information a top secret as we are still working in the bank and intend to resign from service after this money is transferred to your account. I shall furnish you with further details and necessary procedures with which to make a quick transfer progress. I suggest you get back to me immediately through my direct telephone number 00233 278314451.Thanks for you!
r anticipated cooperation and best regards.Yours sincerely,Mr. James Nana.Direct Tel: 00233 278314451.

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