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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.
• 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.
  • mrpascalakossa@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Pascal Akossa <pascalakossa60@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 06:02:53 -0600
Subject: I NEED YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE.




From Mr.Pascal AkossaAfrica Development BankAccra newtown Ghana.Attn:It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance, and you should consider it very important. This is an opportunity that I can not live to miss. I am Mr.Pascal Akossa, the director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of the Africa Development Bank Ghana, and also a Relationship Account Officer to Al Gupta Kassim, a Lebanese.He was a Seasoned Contractor with Ghana Cement Company in Ghana Republic, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Benin republic in December 25, 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Al Gupta Kassim, has a fixed deposit account with the bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you. I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank to the government. Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 7 weeks now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$12.5 million can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money in proportion 70% to me and 30% to you.I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. while it will take only 14 working days the funds is in your nominated Bank account. you should forward the following information to me for a quicker communication.A. Your Full NameB. Private telephone and fax numberC. Your Full location Address.Upon your confidential interest, respond through my e-mailaddress (mrpascalakossa@myway.com)Yours Sincerely.MR.PASCAL AKOSSA
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