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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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • mrvn801@universia.cl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: from the office of Mr Victor <mvnbf58@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrvn801@universia.cl>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:12 +0000
Subject:







Dear Friend,

I'm Mr. Victor Nganga, an accountant in a financial institution here in
BURKINA FASO. I have decided to contact you for a fund transfer transaction
worth the sum of US$10,500,000.00 into your reliable bank account as the
sole NEXT-OF-KIN to the foreign deceased customer of our bank (an
International Billionaire French Businessman) who was killed with his entire
family by PLANE-CRASH in Central England in the year 2003. Since his death
occured, no body have show up as his next of kin for the claim because the
account is untraceable.

Upon the investigation I carried out from his records, I found out that
his foreign business consultant who would have trace the account died
earlier before the deceased. Therefore, this is a confidential and sealed
deal.

For the success of this transaction, you should apply and act as the only
existing NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased which our bank will replace the
deceased account information through proper documentation in position of
your own account.

This transaction is risk-free, it will never harm your good reputation in
your society because no one can trace the account, and on the instant of the
transfer of the fund into your account, the chapter of this transaction will
be closed entirely.

Note: that in a business of this nature, the bank don't want to know your
difference between the deceased country, religion or believe because our
bank inheritance law is against that. So, it is a preference for us to achieve
this success without any problem.

Please note down that once the fund get transferred into your account,
you will take 39% of the total sum for the assistance and role you are going
to play in this transaction,(11%) will be used to establish a charity
organization in your country with your supervision while the remaining will
be for me and my other loyal colleagues here.

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
Private E-mail: mrvn801@universia.cl

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