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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "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.
  • fred.azizan@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3bfred.azizan@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "azizan fred" <azizan.fred@klikni.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:04:13 +0200
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE.


FROM MR.AZIZAN.FRED.
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF,
AUDITING AND ACCOUTING UNIT,
CONTINENTAL BANK,
COTONOU_REPUBLIC OF BENIN,
Email;fred.azizan@yahoo.fr <Email%3Bfred.azizan@yahoo.fr>


My Dear,

Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am
Mr.FRED.AZIZAN, the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of
Continental Bank in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I deem it fit to contact you
regarding to a transaction that will favour both of us at the end,I want to
know if i can trust you in claiming the fund in question.

I discovered the sum of Fifteen million United States Dollars (USD15M)
belonging to a deceased whose name is Dr.Hamid Ayed. The fund has been lying
in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the money
since the account owner late Dr. Hamid Ayed from lebanon, who was involved
in the December 25th Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website
onfiltered=
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased whose
name is Dr.Hamid Ayed.

The foreign account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the
deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed
up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund if
not claimed by the end of next quarter, the government of Benin Republic
will take over the ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act
of 1979. We do not want the government to take over the ownership of this
money, that is why I'm contacting you for us to work this out togather, so
that I will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased whose
name is Dr. Hamid Ayed.

If you accept to carry out this project with me, I will offer you 40% of the
total sum, while I will take 60% of the total sum. Upon your acceptance to
do this deal with me.Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk
and no extra responssibilities on your part, except the above mentioned
roles and normally you will be required to maintain absolute information and
absolute secrecy through out the duration of this transaction, because
discussing it with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction.

Before we proceed in this great deal,i want you to forward to me ASAP the
following information below as to establish a mutual understanding;

1)Your Residential/Office Address.
2)Your Telephone/Fax Number.
3)Your profession.
4)Your Age/Marital status.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project
as this will greatly enrich both of us at the end through my private e-mail
address :fred.azizan@yahoo.fr
BEST REGARDS,
MR.FRED.AZIZAN,

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