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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)
  • "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)
  • "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: =?utf-8?q?MR=20SABBE=20JOHAN?= <mrcarrey1@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: sabbe_johan@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:58:46 +0530 (IST)
Subject: PLS REPLY ME


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrcarrey1@yahoo.in



- Dear Friend, Compliments,Salam Alaykum! I know that this message come to you as a surprise. I am the Auditing and Accounting section manager with Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina faso. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident which I am respose on you the mutual benefit for families.I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of($10.5)million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim.I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer,besides I don't want the money to go into government treasury as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I am contacting you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer.Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret between me and you. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 45% of the above mentioned sum while 50% will be for me, and the other 5% will be for the expences occur in this transaction, if you agree to handle this business with me reply immediately.Also you can visit the website below for more information about the palan crash he tragic death of deceased and his entire family,call me+226/78872981 Mr SABBE JOHAN

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