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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • +22997989972 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: MR EMMANUEL <emmanuelokom2017@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <emmanuelokom2009@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:09:50 +0300
Subject: Please Call Me



My Dear , It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance, This proposal is real and I want you to consider it very important and I am assuring you that it is not a dubious mail. I am Mr Emmanel Okom, the director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of Ecobank Benin , and also a Relationship Account Officer to Al Saeed Gupta, a Lebanese. He was a Seasoned Contractor with Benin Cement Company in Benin Republic, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou , 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/ or www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/26/content_293549.htm Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Al Saeed Gupta 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$10.170 million can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money in proportion 60% to me and 40% to you. I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. All documents of transaction will be destroyed immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place. If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email your following information to me: a. Complete names . b. Private telephone number c. Your sex and age. Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely, Mr Emmanel Okom.Tel:+229-97989972.
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