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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +229970998511 (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.
  • mrs_graceboyi008@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:15:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM MRS.GRACE BOYI, A WIDOW SEEKING FOR AND URGENT HELP PLEASE REPLY


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrs_graceboyi008@yahoo.com



- My Dear Good Friend, I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody like me, whom you does not I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I would like to introduce myself as MRS.GRACE BOYI, of Republic of Benin, a widow to Late MR.DAVID BOYI (for Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvics and attending my medical treatment at St Victoria Private Clininc here in Benin Republic. I am writing to you now from my sick bed because of how this transfer is urgent to me. There is US$18.5 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) my husband has in an account with the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no children,I am looking for a credible person that will not betrayed me to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will appl!
y to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund to his/her bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only 30% of the fund for yourself,10% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 60% for the less previlege people in the society. I will issue you my late husband STANDING ORDER WILL which he wrote and send a copy to the bank before he died which my apointed next of kin have to present a copy to the bank as the real apointed before the bank will release the fund into his account, which i promise to issue you a copy of the ORDER WILL to proceed for the release of the fund. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact my private doctor immediately with your full names and contact information as indicated below so that my doctor will inform me on contacting him so that i will use your contact to wri!
te to my bank here to proceed on processing for an immediate release o
f the fund into your account. I will also ask our family lawyer to prepare an authorization letter that will give you the right of next of kin to the deposited fund with the bank. I will also give you a letter of claim which you will fill and send to the bank for the claim. I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transfered into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above. Kindly send this required informations immediatly and call my private doctor Dr.Felix Rechard on his direct telephone number so that he will inform me for futher process. Note that i had let him know everything about this project as he may assist you here for the process. His number is +22997 099851 1.1.Your Full Name/ Full Address 2.Your Age/ Sex 3.Your Marital Status 4.Your Occupation 5.Your Mobile Numbers 6.Your International Passport/Working ID/Driving Lincence. Thank you and May God bless you. Yours faithfully, Mrs.Grace !
Boyi.

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