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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "liberia" (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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2216837081 (Senegal, 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.
  • lew.bronstein@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "G.F.C SENEGAL" <customer_service@gfc-sn.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:55:17 +0000
Subject: RE: Acknowledgement /Proceedure damand from G C F E F T B.

GLOBAL CONTROL FORIEGN EXCHANGE FINANCE TRUST BANK
DAKAR SENEGAL .
Tel- +2216837081
Fax- +2218927464

Email-customer_service@gfc-sn.com

EXECUTIVE REMITTANCE DIRECTOR / DR CHRISTINE KOLI .



ATTENTION: MR LEW BRONSTEIN  .

DEAR SIR,

WITH DUE RESPECT BASE ON THE EMAIL SEND TO US BY YOU TODAY 17TH FEBUARY 2005,

I AM DIRECTED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR FILE CONCERNING THE FUND THAT
WAS DEPOSITED BY MR. JOHNSON HADJI OF LIBERIA REPUBLIC , REF/CODE
NO.GCFEFBS/800-12401- NO. ATB584W95584
ACCOUNT ESCROW NO .GCFEFB/01123

 

Refference to your request for the release of Mr.Wattara Johnson deposited fund,($6.8 Million U S DOLLARS) willed to his duaghter  Miss. Susan  Hadji presently in Dakar-Senegal. We have acknowledge the receipt of your mail inquiry inrespect to the said inherited fund deposited in our escrow account.

Be informed that your formal inquiry has been noted and forwarded to the transfer unit, you are required to provide proves confirming the true death of the depositor and the legality of your claims from the side of the next of kin(Ms Susan Hadji) to enable us process the release order, you should present the following documents via e-mail attachment for the contents to be viewed properly.

1. You are requested to draft an application letter requesting for the closure and transfer of the said fund into your nominated bank account.

2. You should present an authority letter(Power of attorney) dully signed by a Senegalais based lawyer as your witness, mandating you to make this claims and transfer on Miss Susan Hadji`s behalf.

3. You should present a copy of Mr.Johnson Hadji death certificate, issued by a public/General hospital confirming his death.

4. You should present an affidavit of oat from the federal high court in Dakar Senegal, Since the next of kin is residing in Senegal.

On receipts of the above documents/informations, we shall verify them and as soon as we are satisfied, we shall process your claim and effect the transfer .

 

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience, and we promise to give our customers the best of our services.


THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
MR.NYAN CISSE
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT
(GCFEFB)

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From:  VICTIMNAME <lew.bronstein@gmail.com>
To:  customer_service@gfc-sn.com
Subject:  $6.8M(Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars).
Date:  Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:41:40 +0900
>Attn: GLOBAL  CONTROL FORIEGN EXCHANGE FINANCE TRUST BANK
>          DAKAR SENEGAL .Tel- +2216837081 Fax-  +2218927464
>
>
>Hello Mrs. CHRISTINE KOLI,
>
>I'm contacting you on behalf of the fund of Mr. Johnson Hadji  from
>Liberia with Ref. number ATB584W9557H. I am the foreign partner of
>Miss Fatu to claim the inheritance. Can you confirm if this is real
>and not a 419 scam?
>
>Lew Bronstein

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