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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)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "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 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.
  • jenifferankoh4@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jeniffer Ankoh <jenifferankoh_23@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jenifferankoh4@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:03:38 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT PLEASE



My Dear Friend,

I got your contact here in Cotonou-Benin Republic through a staff of chamber of commerce cyber library attendant on my search for a reliable person to tell about this, though I did not disclose my purpose of seeking for the contact.

We lost every thing before coming to the refugee camp, where we are presently staying in Cotonou-Republic of Benin. I have not met with you before and you have not seen me too but I must beg for your assistance since this is the only way of survival for us. With due respect, we want you to stand as our late father's foreign business partner and beneficiary to claim funds he deposited with a Security Company here in Cotonou, Benin Republic for safe keeping. Before his death in the hands of the rebels in our Country Congo, the rebels slaughtered our parents before our very eyes.

Our father was the former Director General Congolais National Petroleum Co-operation,that was where he made his money, and he deposited it in a Vault of a Security Company for safe keeping in Cotonou Benin before his death. The reason why we solicit your assistance is that the Security Company can only release this consignment to anybody whom I Identify as my late father’s business partner, who will help us to manage the fund, this is my late father’s Agreement with the Security Company at the time of deposit. With our present situation in Cotonou-Benin, I beg you to stand for me and my brother as our late father’s foreign business partner to come and claim the consignment as the new beneficiary.

Please come to our rescue because we are trapped that we cannot travel outside Africa, they seized our traveling documents, this is the more reason we solicit for your help. Again I must make it known to you that the security company did not know the real content of the consignment because my late father did not declear it to them as money rather he decleared it to them as a photographic equipments that belongs to his foreign business partner that is you for security of the fund. Please help us we are surffering too much here in refugee camp, no father, no mother, no food, no medical care, no relation, no money to feed, the most painful thing is that my only younger brother is seriously down with sickness and there is no good medical attention given to him since then.

The amount involved is ($13,000.000.00 USD) (Thirteen Million US Dollar). Please if you have human symparty for orphans and you want to help us, please I would appreciate it better if you can drop your full name and address, your private phone and fax number, which I can always reach you. I really want you to assist us because we dont know anything about international business investment so that both of us can work as business partners in claiming this consignment from the security company for investment in your country.

As soon as you accept to work with me for mutual benefit of all and your share on this transaction will be 15% of the total sum, Note also there is no risk to it.

Expecting your urgent response and meanwhile respond to my private email : (jenifferankoh4@yahoo.fr)

Regards,

Miss. Jeniffer Ankoh

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