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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:

• 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.
  • +22997195250 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Charles Abram" <charlesabram2007@msn.com>
Reply-To: charlesabram9@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:44:07 +0000
Subject: URGENT ANSWER FROM YOU

Dear Sir,
Foremost,i will like to appologise to you for using this medium to inform
you about this purpose.
I am very sorry for any embarrasement this may cause to you but i sincerely
demand your assistance to help me execute this business as a foreigner like
you will serve for this purpose.

Secondly,i also demand your honesty and trustworthiness before i will go
ahead and execute this business with you because it is not easy just to
trust a stanger though we may get closer before the end of this project.

I am Charles Abram from Benin Republic.I am a member of the United Nations
deligate in Republic of Congo.
We were sent to Congo by the UN for crises management.

On our course to maintain peace,i discovered two golden boxes in Munzir
Khalid Khan house an Arab American who was a diamond dealer.
This man died together with his fiancee in the war living no next of kin in
his house.
When i ordered my colleagues to open the boxes,i discovered that the save
box contains US$15Million and 350kilos of raw gold.
Because of my position,i cannot lay my hands on this boxes so i quickly
deposited it to Global Logistic and Vault Company a security deposit company
attached to our office.

Our assignment is over as peace is gratually coming to Republic of Congo so
we have all left the country and the security company have left with the
deposit to their headquater office in london.

Now, i want to present you to the company as the distance relations to
Munzir Khalid Khan so that we can easily claim this deposit and disburse it
among ourselves.
I will arrange the whole legal documents that will enable you claim this
deposit without questions.

I therefore want you to forward this informations to me via my email.

Your telephone and fax numbers.
Your house address information.

On my receipt to this informations,i will immediately forward the company
contact information to you and also advice you on how you will contact them
for this purpose.
You can also reach me on this number +229-97195250.

I expect your immediate response.
Regards,
Charles

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