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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +229608915 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • n_ihezie006@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "nnamdi ihezie" <n_ihezie006@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:13:52 +0100
Subject: Thanks for your kindness (urgent & confidential).

FROM THE DESK OF MR.NNAMDI IHEZIE.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK,
COTONOU,REPUBLIC OF BENIN.

TEL.NO.+229-60-89-15:
TOP SECRET:

Dear Friend ,

I am a staff of African Development Bank in the file/computer department.
I got your contact through an internet business proposal so i decided to
contact you on this business opportunity after my prayers.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15.5m US dollars
(FIFTEEN million FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our, foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in JULY 2000, in a plane crash.

View the venue of the plane crash
http://www.aeronautics.ru/nws002/reuters044.htm

Since we got information about the death of this Bank customer, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come up and claim the money that is left
behind here in my Bank and because we cannot release the fund unless
somebody applies for the fund as next of kin or the relation to the
deceased Bank customer as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery from the investigation which i made that
I decided to contact you into this businness proposal and also guide you
here for the Bank Top official to release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement of
the whole fund in your country since nobody is coming up for the cliam.And I
dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here in my country stipulates that if such
money remained unclamed after 4years, the money will be transfered into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. So the request of a foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Beninois here cannot stand as next of kin relation to a
foreigner.

That was why i agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set
aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me.
As soon as the whole fund is transfered into your foriegn nominated Bank
account in your country i will visit your country for the disbursement of
the fund according to the percentages indicated above.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged
by me here, you must apply first to the bank here as relations or next of
kin of the deceased Bank customer in the Bank here indicating:
Your Bank Name.
Your private telephone No.
Your Fax No.
This is for easy and effective communication and also the location where in
the money will be remitted into.

Please note that upon receipt of your reply, I will immediately send to you
by fax or email the text of the application. I will also not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is a hitch free business transaction
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements on how this whole fund will be transfered into your private
nominated Bank account in your country has smoothly arranged by me here .

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Best regards.

Mr.Nnamdi Ihezie.
(Bill & Ex.ManagerADBANK.).
Tel.No.+229-60-89-15.
Email:n_ihezie006@hotmail.com

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