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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:
  • "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)
  • "you will take 25%" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • k.ais43@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: aisha_kader22@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:48:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dearest Friend, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: k.ais43@yahoo.ca



- Dearest Friend, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME, I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know before. I decided to do this after thinking over the situation. You should please consider the transaction legal. 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 daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed in a Chinese owned Clinic here in Benin Republic . I have a consignments containg US$49.5Million cash, in (US$100 bills) my husband deposited it with a security company, here in Cotonou , Republic of Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition rather because my husband and I have no child, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right to be my beneficiary, then the person will use the fund for charity works only apart from the amount layed out which I stated below,Also I will communicate my lawyer assist you in all legal process, You will be in communication with my lawyer because he knows about the transaction, He is a nice gentel man, He will advise you on the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from the company. This is on the condition, after you receive the consignment, that you will take 25% of the total fund for your assistance, also you will use 5% for expenses which you incured, You will give 5% to the lawyer, then the remaining 65% is 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 put you in communication with my lawyer. I will love that you handle this urgently so that you retrieve the consignment from their company and start using as I advised. I cannot predict what will be my fate, by the time you wll r ecieve the fund, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above. I look forward to your response, Best Regards,Mrs Aisha Kader

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