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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "death certificate" (this phrase is often used in inheritance scams such as next of kin or https://www.419scam.org/419-murdered-businessman.htm">orphan scams. )
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • +22998596832 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Royal Banguli" <royalbangul@colacao.es>
Reply-To: royalbanguli@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:37:38 +0100
Subject: Please Your Urgent Reply is Needed.

Please Your Urgent Reply is Needed.
From: Royal Marco Banguli
Tel: +229 98 59 68 32

Dear Friend,
Good Day to you.
I hope you are fine? It is my great desire to go into business and
parental relationship with you as i intend to transfer the sum of $22
Million Dollars into your account for safe keeping & investment
purpose in your country. I am quite aware that my message will come to
you as a surprise. I found your E-mail online and decided to approach
you with this very beneficial transaction. My name is Royal Marco
Banguli, i am 17 years old and the only surviving son of late Hon.Dr.
MARCO BANGULI from Democratic Republic of Congo who was assassinated by
his own brother who has ego to inherit everything that my late father
has by all means he is even after my life.. My father was the former
minister of finance during 2005 to 2007 he was a very wealthy politician.

My mother died 17 years ago while giving birth to me, and since then my
father took me so special and was giving me the best of live until his
sudden death. Before his death I rushed him to the hospital where he
died after few hours. Before he died he told me to run out of the
country immediately for my dear life that his brother will kill me too.
He told me to go to his friend Mr.Titalamous and collect a file that he
kept with him which contains the documents of a certain deposit he made
outside the country and that i should find my way to the Republic of
Benin where he deposited the sum of ($22,000,000.00) Twenty Two Million
United States Dollars, in a General Trust account in
one of the prime banks in Cotonou the commercial city of Benin Republic.

Now i have managed to sneak into Benin Republic landed in a refugee
camp, and i have located the bank where my late father deposited the
money and i have made my presence known and identified myself to the
management of the bank and explained the situation to them. Since the
death of my late father things has not been easy with me, i have been
facing difficulties of live and suffering. Please i contacted you as i
am searching for a God fearing person that will stand for me as my
foreign beneficiary and represent me to retrieve the money from the bank
and transfer it into your account for me to invest in a foreign country
(Your country) and continue my education while you manage the fund and
investment until i am at least 30 years old of age to take over the
investment, meanwhile i agree to offer you and that you take 30% of the
fund as gratitude for assisting me, while the remaining
balance would be invested in my name but managed by you.

Please if you can assist me to clear and transfer this fund into your
account overseas as my foreign beneficiary and help me to relocate to
your country to further my education i would appreciate it most and
would offer you 30% of the total sum. As you can understand based on my
ignorance in the business field i cannot handle it alone. I need someone
to be my Guardian in life that i will look on to as my parent. Please
let me know what you think, it is never an illegal event, i am the full
stated Next of Kin i have all the documents intact with me here the
original copy of the Certificate of Deposit & Deposit Agreement Bond
issued by the bank and obtained by my late father on the day of deposit
is with me here, I also have the death certificate on my late father to
prove his death to the bank.

Please consider this and assist me, i wait for your immediate reply.
Thanks and God bless you.
My sincere Respect to you,
Yours Son
Royal Marco Banguli

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