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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +22993579188 (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.
  • barraugustmadu@sify.com

Fraud email example:

From: barristerdmark@freenet.de
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:54:22 +0200
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED TO PROCCED



From:Barrister Augustine Madumelu
Manager Credit and Foriegn
Bills
Regent Bank Plc Akpakpa Dume,
Cotonou-Benin Republic.
E-mail:
(barraugustmadu@sify.com)


Good Day,

My name is Barr Augustine
Madumelu, the Manager, Credit and Foreign bills of Regent Bank Plc. I
am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account
number 14-255-114 whose name is Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American
by Citizen who perished in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got
during my investigation;


http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list Since the demise
of this our customer,I personally has watchedwith keen interest to see
the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim
his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very long time. On
this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the
Next of Kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the
banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Ten
Years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund after this period. In view of this I got your contact
when making a research on a foreigner customer.

I will use this great
opportunity.and for your assistant i will give you 30% of the total
amount then 10% has been maped out to donate to the motherless baby
home, while the remaining60% will be for me and my partner. Upon the
receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the letter
of application which you will type sign and send back to our bank to
enable us start this transaction. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer
of this fund has been finalized,

This transaction will be completed
within five banking days of recieving your response, after you apply to
the bank as a relation to the deceased. When you receive this letter,
kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including your private
informations such as below

1, Your Full name and your home
address
2,Your Mobile Tel/Fax numbers
3,Your Passport picture or ID
4,
Your Occupation
5, Your marital status


I wait for your quick
communication through my private Email (barraugustmadu@sify.com) or you
can reach me on my direct telephone number +229 935 79188


Yours
Sincerely,
Barr Augustine Madumelu
Manager Credit and Foriegn Bills
Regent Bank Plc.
Cotonou Rep Of Benin.







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