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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • auditorigwe@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: EMMA IGWE <auditortg4@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:38:45 +0000
Subject: Important message/information to you - reply ASAP


Greetings,

I have urgent and very confidential business proposal for you in reference with Prof. Karl U. Sou's legacy. Prof. Karl U. Sou (a foreigner) was an international Gold consultant/contractor with the west African Solid Gold Corporation, operational within the sixteen member countries of West African States (ECOWAS COMMUNITY) and he made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months,valued at €17.700, 000.00 in my branch. And upon maturity of the release and transfer of his fund, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the west African Solid Gold Corporation that Prof. Karl U. Sou, died in a plane crash here in Benin Republic on his business trip to ASIA on the 25th December 2003.(for more information about this crash, you can review this site:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html.

since we got this information about his death. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I have also conducted personal research and discovered that he did not declare any next kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in the Bank. This sum of €17.700,000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it.

According to Laws of Republic of TOGO and West African Monetary regulatory laws and statistics, at the expiration of 4 (four) years, the money will be reverted to the Government as an unclaimed proceeds, if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, i am due to retirement from office next year 2008. My proposal is that I will like you to come in as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Prof. Karl U. Sou, so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials as an unclaimed proceeds.

I am the director incharge of auditing and accounting unit of Union Togolaise De Banque Lome Togo. Therefore with my position in the bank, this claim is very simple, what you have to do is to provide immediately your full names and address so that i will plant your information in the bank computer system recording you as his next of kin while i will direct you onwardly on how to come up for a smooth and fruitful claim.

I hereby solicit for your immediate positive response to facilitate the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased. Upon your positive response to this convenant, I will make all necessary informations known to you.

Kindly get in touch with me through my email address: auditorigwe@accountant.com for more guildlines to the repartriation of this fund.

Yours Sincerely

Emmanuel Igwe.
Tel: 002280951423


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