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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • mrskader_aisha1a@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Aisha Kader" <aishakader@colacao.es>
Reply-To: mrskader_aisha1a@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:32:55 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP

Mrs Aisha Kader,
From Cotonou,
Benin-Republic,
West Africa.

Good Day.
My Dear Friend,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
known before. 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.Aisha Kader, of Repulic of
Benin, widow to Late Mr.Usman Kader (for Consular of the Benin embassy
in Madrid,Spain.I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the
Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed with my laptop.

There is this consignment (containing US$29.5Million cash, in US$100
bills) my husband deposited with a security company, here in Cotonou,
Republic of Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my health
condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking
for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This
person will apply to the company and request, from them, the procedure
towards retrieving the consignment from them.

This is on the condition that you will take 30% of the fund for
yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 65% for
the less previleged people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the
last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used
to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me
immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will
send you all the documents that the company gave to my husband when the
consignment was deposited. So that you will contact the company
directly, and demand from them the procedure towards retrieving the
consignment from their company.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time you will recieve the
fund, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as I have
described above. I look forward to your response.

Yours Sincerelly,
Mrs. Aisha Kader.

Please reply me at my private email: mrskader_aisha1a@yahoo.com

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