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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "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.
  • +22995814210 (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.
  • jean.seabre1988@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "seabre jean" <jean_seabre04@nsk.biz>
Reply-To: jean_seabre1988@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:43:15 +0200
Subject: From: Dr. Jean Seabre

*From: Dr. Jean Seabre
Foriegn Remittance Department Manager
African development bank
Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
West Africa.

How Are You ?

I am Dr.Jean Seabre the trustee and financial manager to late Mr.Aziz
Mustafa. I am also the present Foriegn Remittance Department Manager of
African development bank , Cotonou branch,Republic of Benin.

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you as a
result of what I presently have at hand.On 25th December 2003, Mr.Aziz
Mustafa, a Lebanese investor in Cotonou , Republic of Benin was among the plane
crash victims of Boeing 727-type, Air plane of African Transport Union (UTA)
crashed on 26th December 2003 at the Fidjrosse beach Cotonou Republic of
Benin. 111 persons died, the Beirut-bound flight victims are mostly Lebanese
nationals and few westerners. Over 40 others still reported missing as at
then, while 22 passengers survived.

Shortly after his death , his relatives arrived Cotonou Republic of
Beninand I handed over every of his other accounts information within
African
development bank ascept this very account file I withheld to divert the sum.


I seek your consent to present you as Next of kin to the deceased so that
the sidetracked Account valued at 15.5 Million Euro (Fifteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand Euro) of late Mr. Aziz Mustafa could be remitted to your
account as his Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutually
agreed percentage. You can aswell go through the websit bellow: *
*www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash>
*
All I require from you is your honest co-operation and trust to enable us
see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. To
enable us discuss further about this transaction, do contact me as i have
sent you the first mail but did not hear from you.
*
*I await your urgent response through my private email:
jean.seabre1988@yahoo.com*
**
*With Best Regards,
Dr. Jean Seabre.*
*Phone + 229 95 81 42 10.þ*
*Private Email jean.seabre1988@yahoo.com*

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