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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +22997689290 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "HERINQUEZ"<herinquez2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <herinquez3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:41:06 +0200
Subject: I69 Have Gold For Sale And Need Your Help And Decided to Talk to You Urgently

Good morning to you and happy to meet you online  and need your help over the transfer of my fund there and i have sent you this message earlier and wonder i f you received it as am still waiting to hear from you for me to know my faith and i have decided to attach my details once more, My name is Miss Aracely Herinquez. I,m a single female medical . I come from Republic De Cuba.I know you will be surprise to receive this message from complete stranger from Cuba but it is a great pleasure writting and knowing you and i have decided to write you all about me and my position here and what i need you to do for me to get my fund into your account to enable me relocate in your area for living and investment. I will also continue my education in your country to actualise my dream of being a doctor. This is a country where my late father has been planning to relocate and invest before the sudden death.

 

 

 
 
MY DATA: MY NAME: MISS ARACELY HENRIQUEZ
MY BIRTH: 11/MARCH/1977
MY OCCUPATION: MEDICAL SCIENTIST
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE
NATIONALITY: REPUBLIC DE CUBA
MY FATHER'S DATA: HIS NAME: MR.ALBERTO HENRIQUEZ

 
 

 
 
OCCUPATION: EXPORTER OF GOLD AND HE DEPOSITED LARGE QUANTITY OF GOLD FOR ME IN THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION HERE WHICH WORTH 600 KILO AND THE AMOUNT DEPOSITED BY MY LATE FATHER IN THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IS VALUED EURO 9.5MILLION AND SOME KILOS OF GOLD AND NEED YOUR HELP FOR THE TRANSFER TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSE AND HELP OF THE LESS PRIVILLEGE PEOPLE AND CHARITY ORGANISATION
AGE BEFORE HIS DEATH : 59 NATIONALITY: REPUBLIC DE CUBA

Gold dust, I will like you to source for capable hand or company that can purchase the Gold which is stated below.
 
Commodity: Alluvial gold dust
Quantity: 250kg
Price: 9000$/KG
Purity: 82% unrefined
Quality: 22 karats +
Origin: Democractic Republic of Congo
Purchase price per kg: USD 9,000
 
Gold bullion
 
Commodity: Gold Bullions AU
 
Quantity:available from 600kg
 
Purity : 999.5 /1000
 
Size : 1KG Bars
 
Age : Less than 4( Four ) years

 

 
 
My dear, please know that in all thing in life we walk by faith and not by sight, as the people of God and also bear in mind that there is nothing impossible for God to do, so long as we trust and cast our burden upon him,he is a mighty God and remains faithful to them that love and trust upon him, I might not have known you but bear in mind that this meeting is the God doing

 

 
please call me for me to know your readiness to assist me in this venture 00229-97689290
Yours Miss Aracely Herinquez
will send you all my details once i hear your positive response and please keep it to yourself as am confiding and trusting you and am going to write to you in clear and more details on how to proceed and work it out

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