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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)
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "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.
  • +22993970047 (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.
  • jhn_will01@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Johnson Williams <jhn_willi14@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <jhn_will01@yahoo.it>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:07:56 +0100
Subject: From: Dr. Johnson Williams.



From: Dr. Johnson Williams.Manager, Account & Audit Dept.,Continental Trust Bank ( CTBB ) Cotonou, Benin Republic. My Dear, With much sincerity of heart and purpose, I make this contact with you believing that this communication will mark the beginning of a new and lasting relationship between us even in the near future. I am aware of the fact that my message will come to you as a surprise, due to the fact that we do not know each other before. Rather, I want you to give attention to this letter and read it with the best of your understanding. I am Dr. Johnson Williams, the newly appointed Manager, Account & Audit Dept. at Continental Trust Bank (CTBB). I am contacting you following the recent discovery I made during the bank's end of the year Audit in 2006; were we discovered an abandoned sum of money in tone of $35 million (Thirty Five Million US Dollars) only lying dormant in the bank without any current deposit or withdrawal or anybody coming for the money. This is the third year this money has been lying dormant here in the bank which is according to the previous Audit reports. According to the bank's rules and regulations, any deposit that stayed more than a period of 4 years in the bank, will be confiscated and transferred into the Government Bank treasury as unclaimed bills. Furthermore, investigations reveal that this money belongs to a foreign customer of the bank, who died in a plane crash that happened here in Benin, on the 25th of December, 2003 while travelling on a festive visit to his home country Lebanon, when suddenly there aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean immediately after taking off from the Benin International Airport which is situated opposite the Atlantic Ocean side of Benin Republic. MY PROPOSAL TO YOU. As the newly appointed Manager, Account & Audit Department of this bank, I wish to solicit for your unconditional support and assistance to move this money to your country, by putting up an application for the transfer of the money to your account as the business partner to the late customer of the bank Mohd Mujib Kamal Hakim as no member of the extended family of the deceased has the existing knowledge of this amount here in our Bank. Please, this message is not a scam or an illegal transaction because I have put everything in place for the successful conclusion of this transfer and have also acquired all the vital information's about the late customer of the bank Mohd Mujib Kamal Hakim that will be helpful to us to successfully conclude this transfer. If you are interested and ready to do this business with me, I am ready to share this money with you at the percentage ratio of 50:50 with you. I would like us to meet here in Cotonou, Benin Republic for discussions before we can proceed on the transfer. If you cannot be able to travel to meet me for a discussion, contact me via my email jhn_will01@yahoo.it or mobile telephone number +229 9397 0047 for more details. Please, if you are not interested, ignore and delete this message and also forgive me for disturbing your peace. Thank you for your good understanding as I wait for your urgent and positive response. Yours truly,Dr. Johnson Williams.Mobile: +229 9397 0047.Contact E-mail: jhn_will01@yahoo.it
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