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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)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +22993155983 (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.
  • hectorhadewale@yahoo.com.sg (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "benin fin" <contract_enquiry@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hectorhadewale@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:22:19 +0100
Subject: FROM:PRINCE HECTOR AYUSO II- KINDLY ACKNOWLEGE RECEIPT

 

From: Prince Hector H Ayuso
Cotonou-Republic of Benin,West africa
Telephone:(229)93155983
Send Reply to Email: hectorhadewale@yahoo.com.sg
Dear Friend,

Warm personal greeting to you.
This email correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met,i know that this is an unlikely platform to start this kind of relationship but i am constrained by the present situation here and i request you to permit me use this medium to introduce myself.
I am Prince Hector Ayuso hadewale,I am single male with no kids, my late father was the King ruling over the kingdom of the Gold rich district in west of Burkina Faso.
After his death several conflict occured over his inheritance and having realize that my danger life is in danger, i resulted to leave Burkina Faso.I am presently in Republic of benin, west africa. Before the king died he left an inhenritance below:
A.550KG of Au gold metal tht has  22+carat  of 99.98% purity
B.US$15M in cash
The king  involved in a ghastly auto accident  on his way to Republic of Benin and  died on 18th April,2006. Before he died he confided in me a top secret that he deposited the sum of Fifteen million dollars for safe keeping.
My dad until his death was a highly esteemed and valued customer,who operates a gold premium membership account with a banking deposit network located here in Cotonou,Republic of Benin. He has open a fixed deposit account and deposited funds totalling (US$15M)Fifteen-Million American dollars which i realize from the sales of Gold.
This deposit was for six months and upon maturity i presented  the death certificate and autopsy report of my late dad to the head of treasury department of the bank,the head informed me that deceased already instructed that the fund once matured should be transfer to the deceased our overseas contact person,which the bank believe only the heir know. What bothers me most? Is that according to the laws of this country called Republic of Benin, at the expiration of number of months  the funds will revert to the ownership of the Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Against this backdrop,i seek your full support to participate as the overseas contact person and represent our mutual interest and benefit.
Myself being the heir to the kingdom, I will confirm your eligibility as the overseas contact person of late King Ayuso II, also I will confirm your eligibility of ownership of the fund and well as you personality link to the deceased.
Once I introduced you to the bank as the overseas contact of the deceased, the bank will transfer the fund to you immediately.
Your acceptance to be partner with him will earn you fifty-percent out the total fund as your share.
This further implies that you will assist in providing investment strategies for the investment the other 50% of the fund belonging to me into a good and profitable investment in your country. I am ready to relocate  to your country once the transaction has been successfully concluded.
Kindly indicate your acceptance  by replying promptly to my executive private email address: hectorhadewale@yahoo.com.sg and Call me on +229-93155983.
Respectively yours,
Prince Hector Ayuso Hadewale II.

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