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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)
  • "transferred into your bank account" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mrvn80@universia.cl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr V. Nganga" <mrvnw22@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrvn80@universia.cl>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:50:49 +0000
Subject:







Dear Friend,

I am Mr Victor Nganga, the Director Auditing and Accounting unit of Bank Of Africa (B.O.A) here in Burkina faso, west africa. It's my urgent need for a reliable foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.

I have made every needful arrangement to transfer the left over fund (usd.11.5million) which belongs to one of our bank clients (Mr Kurt Kahle) who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash. Moreover, i have almost all the needful documents which we are to use for the Fund Claiming.

Therefore we absolutely have nothing to fear about on this transaction, hence i am here to direct you as a banker with good experience over banking matters for the approval and transfer of the fund into the norminated standard bank account which you are to provide for this transaction.

Upon findings which i have made, i found out that the fund was dormant for some years ago and also untraceable hence there is no-one left to claim the fund as they died altogether. For more information about the death of our bank client Mr Kurt Kahle, please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

After the fund been transferred into your bank account, i will quickly come over to you for the sharing of the fund where 60 percent of the total sum will be for me as well 40 percent for you. If you agreed to my business proposal and also the terms, further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i received your response. Have a nice day.

I need your urgent response including your private telephone/mobile
numbers for easy communication. Please reply if you can be trusted in this
deal.

Thanks,
Victor Nganga
Please reply to my private e-mail address: mrvn80@universia.cl

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