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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)
  • "trunk box" (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 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.
  • jhon.kenneth@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kenneth jhon" <jhonkenneth@norilsk.tv>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:08:41 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend


Dear Friend

My name is Mr. Jhon Kenneth I work in a managerial position in a well
respected security company, with a head office in Benin Republic

I am contacting you because of an urgent business transaction that I
want to do with a trusted foreigner, I got your email informations
through the Benin's Chamber of Commerce and industry on foreign business
relations here in Republic of Benin though I havent disclose this deal to
anybody.

On the 25th of November 2003, the sum of $41,500.000 was deposited with
my company where i work , disguised as a family heirloom in a trunk
box, this is not the only time that corrupt government officials uses the
services of my company to ship their ill gotten wealth abroad or
secure it for future use. I took exceptional note of this deposit because
it
was large and as the man at the helm of affairs then, I got to know
the man behind the deposit,Late President Gnassingbe Eyadema who died on
February 2005.

Please confirm the death of the fomer president through the following
web site; www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2005/02/

The reason for my contacting you is that I checked and found out that
the deposit is still intact and nobody has asked for it, and I know that
nobody will ever ask for it, I am the only living soul who knows the
true identity of the depositor, no other person can retrieve the deposit
except the person can produce the codes combination which was given to
the depositor, the way we operate is that if the depositor wants to
retrieve his deposit, he will instruct the company in writing and give
his codes and if the manager confirms the code, the deposit will be
released at once to the person, no name or identification is needed.

If you accept to work with me, I will give you the instruction letter
to send to my company and also when the company asks for the codes, I
will give them to you.

Due to your acceptant please reach me on my personal email address :

Email; jhon.kenneth@hotmail.fr

My Best regards.
Mr. Jhon Kenneth

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