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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)
  • "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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • ali_zongo_01@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ali zongo <ali.zongo.4@msn.com>
Reply-To: <ali_zongo_01@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:16:07 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT ATTENTION.



Dear friend,

I am Mr Ali Zongo, personal Assistant to the Branch Manager of ( B O
A) Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I want to inquire from
you
if you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/life
opportunity
for you and me.

The transaction is about seeking your consent to present you as the
next of kin/ beneficiary of the (US$25M) million dollars,(Twenty five
millions United States dollars ), and who is a customer to the bank
where i
work. He died in a Kenya plane crash 2000, with his family during
their vacation journey.

The Fund is currently in a suspense account awaiting claim, the bank
made a public notice that they are ready to release this fund to any
of
his relatives abroad. THEREFORE, by virtue of its nature as being
utterly CONFIDENTIAL, top secret should be maintained please!,because
i am
still in the active service i do not need any form of implication
especially now i'm in the verge of my retirement to endanger my carear
at
last!. Since we got the information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we
cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws.

In that regard, i decided to seek your consent for this prospective
opportunity. Have it at the back of your mind, that the transaction
does
not involve any RISK, and does not need much engagement from you,
since
i am familiar with this kind of transaction being an insider.
Necessary modalities will be worked out to enable us carry out the
fund claim
under a legitimate arrangement.

I have resolved to offer you 40% of the total fund if only you will
understand and follow up my instruction because it will only required
a
foriegn Account to transfer the fund, 10% for sundry expenses that may
be
incurred during the process of executing this transaction and 50%
percent for me. I will give you more details about the transaction
when I
receive your affirmative response, I'm waiting to hear from you soon.
write me through my private email address. (ali_zongo_01@myway.com)


Thanks and God bless.

Mr.Ali Zongo.

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