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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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: BradyNet <bradynet@bradynet.com>
Reply-To: georgeofo@live.com
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:26:22 -0400
Subject: VERY URGENT

Greetings from your friend (georgeofo@live.com) and
BradyNet (http://www.bradynet.com/)

Your friend forwarded the following article from our web site. Reponses
to this letter will be directed to that address.

You can see this article online at http://www.bradynet.com/group.html

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COMMENTS:
Dear Friend.


I am Mr George Ofori the manager of Auditing and Accounting


department of a prime bank in Africa. In my department,i discovered


an abandoned sum of US$25.6 Million dollars (Twenty five Million Six


Hundred Thousand dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our


foreign customers (John Shumejda) who died in a plane crash on 4


January 2002. You can view this CNN site for more details.


http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/


I need a reliable someone with a foreign account to be able to


receive this money, even an empty account can serve to claim this


money.Should you be willing to complete this transaction,send to me


your private telephone number for easy and effective communication


and location. As soon as the transfer is concluded you are entitled


to 25% of the total fund. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you


more details on this transaction trusting to hearing from you


Soonest.


Please reply me directly to my personal email address for further


correspondence and privacy. georgeofo@live.com


Yours Faithfully,


George Ofori.

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