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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:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • marcelacherry@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "OFFICE MAILS" <office_mail010@ig.com.br>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:35:31 +0200
Subject: URGENTLY REQUIRED.


**

*Financial Bank Benin
Avenue du Gouverneur
G.P 01 BP 2700 - COTONOU*

*Attn: Dear*

*I am Marcela Cherry, General Manager Financial Bank of Republic Du Benin
and also a special account officer to a foriegn customer with the bank.

He was a Seasoned Contractor with the Republic Du Benin Mining Corporation
who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africains
Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the 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*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash>
*.


Before his death, he has a fixed deposit account with my bank and no other
person knows about this account or any thing concerning it.

My investigation and a review of the account opening file proved that his
supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash.

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of his extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

I decided to contact you so that I can use my official capacity to attest
that you are the bona-fide next of kin so that approval will be given for
the release and transfer of the money to an account you will norminate
before the fund will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.

The account balance is at US$35 million. Upon transfer to your account, I
have the plan to resign my appointment with the bank so that I can come
over to your country for the shearing of the fund with you in the percentage
we will agree on.

I have the official capacity to perfect the logistics required to ensure a
swift approval and hitch free transfer under a well arranged risk free
framework.

All I require is 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 from any breach of the law.

All documents of transaction will be destroyed immediately we receive this
money leaving no trace to any place.

Please reply back to this mail (
**marcelacherry@hotmail.fr*<marcelacherry@hotmail.fr>
*)

Thanks and regards,
Mr.Marcela Cherry williams.
*

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