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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "into your nominated 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • arohdennis@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Aroh Dennis <arohdennis13@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: aroh_dennis2007@myway.com
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 09:16:46 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Investment Proposal Business From Aroh Dennis


>From the Desk of:Mr Aroh Dennis,
Credit Manager Section,
Bank of African,
Dakar Capital of Ssenegal,West African.
Contact Me With This Email
Address( arohdennis@yahoo.co.uk]
Strictly Confidential.

Hello Dear Friend,

My name is Aroh Dennis, a citizen of Senegal, and a credit manager in a bank here in the Dakar Senegal. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management three years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential.

My proposal: I now seek your permission to present you as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds (USD$18.870M)(Eighteen Million Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand United States Dollars). I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security Firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation.so we have set in motion the machinery for the take off this transaction and further action will commence immediately we hear from you.

Upon receipt of the deposit,I am prepared to share the money with you. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds.We have agreed that after the transfer of the money into your nominated Bank Account, you shall be entitled to 40% of the fund, my colleagues and I shall take 50% while 10% shall be mapped out to cover for local and internatioal expense that may be incurred in the course of transaction. I would have gone ahead to ask that the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days.

I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a luck that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let us share the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this email account. If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion.

I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you and also through this email address. I do not want any direct link between you and myself. My official lines are not secured lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy.Please observe this instruction religiously.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive, if my offer is of no appeal to you.I will send to you my International passport as a proof my sincere purpose in this transaction and you can confirm it's authenticity from my country's embassy before we can proceed.Contact me immediately through my private email (arohdennis@yahoo.co.uk) for details of the business

Hope hearing from you as soon as possible.

Regards,
Aroh Dennis.

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