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

Fraud email example:

From: drghani_mubarak@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:30:49 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20NEED=20YOUR=20URGENT=20RESPOND=20IMMIDIATELY?=

FROM DESKTOP OF DR.MUBARAK GHANI
BANK OF AFRICAN BENIN REP
FOREIEGN REMITTANCE DEPT
TELEX: 539 BANK OF AFRICA
TELEPHONE............+22993570792
PRIVATE E-MAIL......drmubarakghani@myway.com

ATTEN; FRIEND,

IT IS MY PLEASURE WRITTING TO YOU AT THIS MOMENT OF THE DAY,ALTHOUGH WE
MIGHT NOT HAVE MET BEFORE I AM DR MUBARAK GHANI,I WORK WITH THE BANK OF
AFRICAN BENIN,AS THE FORIEGN REMITTANCE ACCOUNTANT IN THE BANK, MR.DESTIN
PAL (A FOREINGNER),HAVE BEEN MY GOOD CLIENT AND FREIND AS REGARD KNOWING
HIS ASSET IN MY BANK.

MR PAL , WHO OWN A MULTIMILLION CONSTRUCTION COMPANY HERE IN BENIN. I AM
HIS ACCOUNT OFFICER IN THE BANK, SO HE IS MY CLIENT .

ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER 2003, MY CLIENT, HIS WIFE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN
WERE INVOLVED IN A GHASTLY PLANE CRASH MY CLIENT AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY UNFORTUNATELY
LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE PLANE CRASH.SINCE THEN I HAVE MADE SEVERAL ENQUIRIES
TO THEIR EMBASSY TO LOCATE ANY OF MY CLIENT'S EXTENDED RELATIVES, WHICH
HAS PROVED ABORTIVE.

AFTER THESE SEVERAL UNSUCESSFUL ATTEMPTS,THE NEED TO CONTACT YOU AROSE BASED
ON THE FACT THAT YOU ARE A FOREIGNER.

MY MAIN REASON FOR CONTACTING YOU AS A FOREINGNER IS TO ASSIST ME IN REPATRIATING
THE MONEY AND PROPERTY LEFT BEHIND BY MY CLIENT BEFORE THEY ARE CONFISCATED
OR DECLARED UNSERVICEABLE BY THE BANK WHERE THEY ARE DEPOSITED/LODGED. PARTICULARLY,
THE CBANK OF AFRICAN WHERE THE DECEASED HAS A BALANCE SUM OF $11.6M (ELEVEN
MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) IN HIS ACCOUNT.

THE BANK ISSUED A FINAL NOTICE TO ME TO PROVIDE THE NEXT OF KIN OF MY CLIENT
OR THEY WILL BE LEFT WITH NO OTHER CHOICE THAN TO CONFISCATE HIS FUNDS.

SINCE I HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOCATING MY CLIENT'S RELATIVES FOR THE
PAST YEARS, NOW I SEEK YOUR CONSENT TO PRESENT YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN OF
MY CLIENT SO THAT THE FUND,THE SUM OF ELEVEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED UNITED
STATES DOLLARS CAN BE PAID IN YOUR NAME INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT FOR THE BANK
MANAGMENT WHO WANTS TO USE IT FOR THEIR GREEDY DESIERS.

I HAVE ALREADY PERFECTED EVERY UNDERGROUND WORK THAT WILL BACK UP ANY CLAIM
YOU WILL MAKE. ALL THAT I REQUIRE FROM YOU IS YOUR HONEST COOPERATION AND
SINCERITY TO ENABLE US SEE THIS ARRANGEMENT THROUGH.

I GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL BE EXECUTED UNDER A LEGITIMATE ARRANGEMENT THAT
WILL PROTECT YOU AND I FROM ANY BREACH OF THE LAW. PLEASE REPLY ME IF YOU
CAN ASSIST .

FINALLY KINDLY GIVE ME YOUR CONFIDENTAIL PHONE/FAX NUMBERS SO THAT I CAN
FAX OR ATTACH A SPECIMEN OF APPLICATION WHICH YOU WILL RE-TYPE AND SUBMIT
TO THE BANK AS THE BONAFIDE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED VIA E-MAIL,ALSO
YOUR OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, AGE AND OCCUPATION, MARITAL STATUS.WILL
BE RELEVANT IN THIS ISSUE,TO ENABLE ME PUT SOME DOCUMENTS IN YOUR FAVOUR
WHICH THE BANK MIGHT REQUIRE FROM YOU, FOR PROOFS.

MOREOVER YOU WILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN ABSOLUTE SECRECY OF THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION
BECAUSE DICUSSING IT WITH A THIRD PARTY WILL BE DISASTROUS TO THIS TRANSACTION
AND FOR THE SAKE OF MY JOB AS A BANKER.

FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TOWARDS THIS,I HAVE RESOLVED ALREADY THAT YOU WILL GET
30% OF THE TOTAL MONEY AND I WILL HAVE SIXTY% AND 10% WILL BE FOR NECESSARY
EXPENCES(IF ANY) WHICH WILL BE DEDUCTED IMMIDIATELY THE MONEY ENTERS YOUR
ACCOUNT, AND I WILL LIKE TO INVEST SOME OF MY OWN SHARE IN YOUR COUNTRY.

VIEW THIS WEBSITE :
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

PLEASE DO REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADRESS
drmubarakghani@myway.com

I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPOND IMMIDIATELY

BEST REGARDS,
DR. MUBARAK GHANI
002993570792

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