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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +2289244148 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Nelson Akakpo <nelson21akakpo@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: nelsonakakpo50@yahoo.no
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:28:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CALL ME +228 924 4148


From: Mr. Nelson Akakpo.
No: 45 B Ibis Avenue
Industrial Layouts.
B.P. 1056. Lome-Togo.

Dear Sir/madam ,

Humble greetings to you. With due respect, I am Mr. Nelson Akakpo, An accountant “NORTH ATLANTIC SECURITIES SARL?here in Lome-Togo. And a very good friend of our company Late Mr. Levy Shimony, who died on the 15th of December 2003 with his entire family in plane crashed.

Meanwhile, I secretly knew concerning his deposit fund under the care of our company (US$10.500, 000.00M), “Ten million five hundred thousand dollars?deposited under our security company. My Dear, since death clear out him and his family, I decided to seek for a very reliable trustworthy person, to stand as his bonafide next of kin, since there is none of his relative applying for the claim.

However, if such deposit happens to stay longer it will be confiscated by the government as unclaimed deposit. Upon this discovery, I have agreed to make business with you and release the box into your care as the heir of the box, since no one came for it or discovered the deposit information’s to you for the easier claim of this noble transaction.

Looking forward to hear your positive response.

Best Regard, he deposited such thing with our Firm. I have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus 40% for you as foreign partner, 60% for me.

Happily, confirm your interest towards my mutual request with you before I will release all
Mr. Nelson Akakpo.
+228 924 4148


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