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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)
  • "million united states 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)
• 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.
  • luxbrown@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LUX brown" <luxbrown01@g.pl>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:36:14 +0200
Subject: A REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.


**

*Dear Friend, *

*This is an official legal notice for an unclaimed fund left by Engr Morgan
E. Heneger, who died in a plan crash here in Benin on the 25th December
2003.*

*I am a Staff incharge of auditing and accounting unit of Continental Bank
of Benin. I discovered the sum of TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($10
Million) left in the deceased account and the fund has been lying in as a
suspence account,since no one has come up for claim.*

*I hereby solicit for your immediate response and positive committed efforts
to facilitate for the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased.
Upon your positive response to this convenant, I will make all necessary
informations known to you, as I attached here the website of the incident ,
**http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html>
*. *

*Kindly get in touch with me through my alternative email address below for
more guildlines to the repartriation of this fund.
Reply me back here on this email(**luxbrown@yahoo.com* <luxbrown@yahoo.com>*
)*

*Yours Sincerely,
Lux Brown.
Alternative Email: **luxbrown@yahoo.com* <luxbrown@yahoo.com>* *

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