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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 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.
  • financialbanklimited@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "aronu okolo" <aronuokolo04@gala.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:45:14 +0200
Subject: CONTACT FINANCIAL BANK FOR YOUR WIRE TRANSFER


*Attention;My Dear

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft
of $1,5 milion for your compensation but I did not heard from you since
that time
Then I went and deposited the Draft with FINANCIAL BANK here in Benin
Republic, because I will travelled to see my boss and I will not come back
till next month end. *
**
*I want you to contact the FINANCIAL BANK BENIN REPUBLIC to know when they
will transfer your funds because after i did not hear from you or receive
your mail then i went and made arrangement with financial bank BENIN
REPUBLIC on how to transfer your money into your bank account at your
country and note that your money which bank going to transfer is $1.5musd
and what you have to do right now is to contact the bank immediately so that
the manager will transfer your money into your bank account and be informed
that i have paid the bank for the open of new account fee for you. now
listen the money that remain which you can pay to them is wire transfer fee
which is only 150.00 to transfer your money directly into your bank account
at your country ok.*
**
*This is information the Bank Manager need from you.
YOUR COUNTRY.............
YOUR FULL NAME........
YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER.............
NAME OF YOUR BANK................
A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
OCCUPATION...........
HOME ADDRESS.....
MOBIL PHONE NUMBER.....
OFFICE NUMBER.........
HOME NUMBER............
MARITAL.......
AGE....
SEX....

Try to contact bank through this.
HON.MR.Richard.A.William.FINANCIAL BANK MANAGER
MANAGER'S PHONE NUMBER..00229-93-68-43-97
FAX..00229-97345137
EMAIL;(**financialbanklimited@yahoo.fr* <financialbanklimited@yahoo.fr>*)

Again to avoid any mistake on the transfering. Let me know immediately you
receive your Draft.and make sure that you follow bank manager's instruction
and forward all your bank account detail where to transfer your money
Direct okay. **
*
*Your Best Regards
Mr. Aronu Okolo
*

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