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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +229970998511 (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.
  • mrs_boyi2005@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "GRACE BOYI" <graceboyi2000a@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:50:12 +0100
Subject: FROM MRS.GRACE BOYI. A WIDOW SEEKING FOR AN URGENT HELP.


My Dear Good Friend,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody like me, whom you
does not know before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation.
You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact
that you have not known me before.

I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are
many such possibilities these days.I would like to introduce myself as
MRS.GRACE BOYI, of Republic of Benin, a widow to Late MR.DAVID BOYI (for
Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain.

I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvics and attending
my medical treatment at St Victoria Private Clininc here in Benin Republic.
I am writing to you now from my sick bed because of how this transfer is
urgent to me. There is US$18.5 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars) my husband has in an account with the AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK, of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition
and because my husband and I have no children,I am looking for a credible
person that will not betrayed me to whom I will pass the right of next of
kin.


This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund
to his/her bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only
30% of the fund for yourself,10% used for expenses, while you will use the
remaining 60% for the less previlege people in the society. I will issue you
my late husband STANDING ORDER WILL which he wrote and send a copy to the
bank before he died which my apointed next of kin have to present a copy to
the bank as the real apointed before the bank will release the fund into his
account, which i promise to issue you a copy of the ORDER WILL to proceed
for the release of the fund.

This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial
part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.If this condition
is acceptable to you, you should contact my private doctor immediately with
your full names and contact information as indicated below so that my doctor
will inform me on contacting him. I will also ask our family lawyer to
prepare an authorization letter that will give you the right of next of kin
to the account in the bank. I will also give you a text of the application
you are to send to the bank.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be
transfered into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is
used as i have described above.

Kindly send this required informations immediatly and call my private doctor
Dr.Felix Rechard on his direct telephone number so that he will inform me
for futher process. Note that i had let him know everything about this
project as he may assist you here for the process. His number is +22997
099851

1.Your Full Name/ Full Address

2.Your Age/ Sex

3.Your Marital Status

4.Your Occupation

5.Your Mobile Numbers

6.Your International Passport/Working ID/Driving Lincence.

Thank you and May God bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Kindly reply me on this email as indicated below:
*mrs_boyi2005@myway.com*<http://fr.f233.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mrs_boyi2005@myway.com>

looking forward to your immidiate response.

Yours,
Mrs.Grace Boyi.

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