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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2214304431 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "barrtit okonji" <barrtit_okonji002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barrtitiokonji@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:46:01 -0900
Subject: hello

Attn: Please,
I am so very sorry if I pried into your privacy, I am convinced that you
would be capable to provide a solution to this project. I am Mr.Titi Okonji
of Okonji’s Consultant, Dakar Senegal. I am writing in regards to my late
client Mrs. Tina Ranseier,a single mother of two and a successful
businesswoman that base here in Senegal. She died unfortunately with her two
kids in an air mishap in Nov 2004.

The reason I am contacting you is to work with me as her relation to effect
claim of her deposited assets and accrued interest valued at Twenty Nine
Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Euros before it gets confiscated by the
European Government. The European Bank has written us (Her Consultant)
several times in the past years and now issued a final notice to provide any
of her relatives for this payment or have the assets channel to the European
Government Treasury as unclaimed fund within the next 14 days.

Since she died with her two daughters, there was no Next of Kin or Relatives
left in our record, I solicit for your sincere consent to present you as her
only surviving relative and a beneficiary, so that this funds can be
transfer to your bank account since I’ve been unlucky locating any of her
relatives. My aim now is to usher you in legally as her relative so this
payment can be of mutual benefit to both of us.

On receipt of your Interest to work with me, I have concluded that you will
inherit 45% of this fund for your help and sincerity,45% for my firm while
10% for the refunds of processing expenses and to pay tax in your country
(if any) prior to the successful confirmation of this funds in your bank
account. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of law.

Please urgently reply if you can handle it via my email address.

Yours Sincerely
Mr.Titi Okonji .
Okonji’s Consultant
Rue 54 x 621 / Villa 1723 BP320 Dakar Senegal.
Tel:+2214304431

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