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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • benalison@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ben alison" <ben_alison15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: benalison@myway.com
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:01:20 +0200
Subject: Dear partne

FROM: Ben Alison
AUDITOR GENERAL
First National Bank
6th floor, 1 First Place
Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng
South Africa

Dear Business partner,

RE: TRANSFER OF US$168.559 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.At first I
will like to assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both parties.Though, this
medium (Internet) has been
greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains
the fastest medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is private, and it should be
treated as such.

My name is Ben Alison I work as the Auditor General in charge of credit and
foreign bills of one of a prime banks here in South Africa.

On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a
Balance of US$168,559,000. 00 [One hundred and sixty eight million five
hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollars only]. The account holder, The
deceased, was believed to be incharge of former Iraqi President, Saddam
Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions in Africa before his death. On further
discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder has died
long ago with his family
on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other
person knows about this account. I want to transfer this money into your
account as the foreign beneficiary of the fund. I know that this letter will
come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, BUT BE SURE
THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS. I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU
WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL
attached to the account, no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with
legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are
interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction.
This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer
the fund out to a foreigner's account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that
will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to
nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account
information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy
communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this
transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total
transfer sum, 70% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any
expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The
fund will be transfered to your account in two parts. I will first transfer
USD 38 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet
you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed
percentages. I will have the remaining balance of USD130,559 Million
transfered to your account only after thesuccessful sharing of the first
transfer without any disappointment from your side.

Let me hear from you Ugently by sending me email.

Best Regards,
Ben Alison
[South Africa]
Reply to:[benalison@myway.com]

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