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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 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.
  • +22993148000 (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.
  • sirbuelechi@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "USUARIO DO SISTEMA" <sirbuelechi@ig.com.br>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:51:04 +0200
Subject: Fund transfer to your bank account !


* TRANSFER OF $6.2M USD
____________________________________ *

* *


*Dear Good Friend , *

*I am Dr.Sirbu Elechi, Senior Accountant & the Auditor General of " BANK OF
AFRICA" here in Cotonou Republic of Benin.I wish to know if we can work
together. I would like you to stand as the Next of Kin to our Deceased
Client who made a Fixed Deposit of US$6.2M to our Bank.
*

*He died and left nobody behind as his Next of Kin, Please get back to me
through my private email address (**sirbuelechi@sify.com*<sirbuelechi@sify.com>
*) and call me on my phone number +22993148000,for more details ,If you are
interested to do this transaction with me and the fund will be transfer to
your bank account. *


*Dr.Sirbu Elechi.
+22993148000
Your personal mail please call me.
*

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