419 scam: Olivia Gama Sogolo <oliviagamas@live.com> From Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
- +22998423429 (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.
- oliviasogolo@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Olivia Gama Sogolo <oliviagamas@live.com>
Reply-To: oliviasogolo@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:41:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo

Hello
Dear,

Permit
me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humanitarians work.
I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please
consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not
known me before. 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. Olivia Gama Sogolo, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Dr.
Edward Tibos Sogolo (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I
have been recently diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic. I am writing to you now
from my sick bed here in the hospital.

There
is $8.5M (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) my husband
has in an account with the BANK OF AFRICAN BENIN (BOA) of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no
child, I decide to contact you so that I will pass the right of next of kin to
you. I will send to you the document that covers the fund in the Bank which you
will use to contact the bank and request for the re-transferring of the fund to
your own bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only 30% of
the fund for yourself, while you will use the remaining 70% to help the less
privileges people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my late
husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less
privilege people, If this condition is acceptable to you, you should
contact me immediately through my E-mail:oliviasogolo@hotmail.com , and through the hospital telephone number
+229-98423429 Hospital Address: CENTRAL HOSPITAL BENIN, 124 bp, Midombo
Cotonou - Benin Republic, Contact person Doctor Marc Nicholas. Please call the
Doctor and ask him of Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo, let the doctor to know
that you want to speak with me on phone.

Indicate
to me your full names with your contact address so that i will have the trust
to pass the right of next of kin to you. So as soon as i receive your full
names with your full contact address i will proceed to send to you all the
documents covering the fund, which you will send to the bank for the release of
the fund to you.

I cannot
predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your
account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described
above.

I look
forward to your immediate response,

Yours
Sincerely,

Mrs.
Olivia Gama Sogolo

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