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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 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.
  • +2289994637 (Togo, 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.
  • etekonestor@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nestor etekobe <etekonestor@web.de>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:50:48 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL




Hello,

I am Engr.Nestor Etekobeh,one of the account officers of Late Mr. Andreas Schranner, a German property magnate who lost his life and that of his children and grandchildren including his wife on monday 31st of July 2000 in a plane crash.

Refer to the website below for more details:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm].

Please let me know what you intend to have as your percentage if you agree to embark on this risk free venture because I have all relevant papers withnessed by my lawyer which will be updated to read you as the approved sole beneficiary of the USD5MILLION deposited by him at the I.C.B bank in Accra- Ghana.

Note that because of various scam activities all over the world,my humble suggestion is that after I must have used my personal funds to update the documents and send to you via email attachment and you contact the bank,it will be very necessary that we meet in person at the bank in Accra- Ghana
to conclude the transaction.

You will be reaching me for now with this tel.number stated below till we conclude on our meeting.Feel very free to ask further questions if necessay and Reply only through my private and secured email for more information for the USD5MILLION can be confirmed in your account under Ten days.

Regards,

Engr.Nestor Etekobeh.
Email- etekonestor@yahoo.com [mailto:etekonestor@yahoo.com]
Tel- +228-999-4637.




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