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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "inheritance tax" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • paiusdibia@hotmail.com
  • paiusdibia@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "paius dibia" <paiusdibia1a@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:02:28 +0000
Subject: From:Paius E.Dibia IBA-BANK-TOGO/Tel :+ 228 9035855

>From :Mr Paius E. Dibia
International Bank Of Africa
Lome Togo, West Africa
Private Tel/Fax:+ 228 903-5855
Private Email:paiusdibia@hotmail.com


Dear Sir,

With all due regards My name is Mr Paius E. Dibia the manager credit an
foreign bills of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA Lome-Togo [IBA-BANK] . I am
writing in respect of foreign customer of my bank with account
number:(14-255-2001/Ecb/tg) who perished in a car accident on the 21ist
April 2003alongside with his wife & only child. Before his untimely death
was a foreign contractor with Shell Bp Lome - Togo. However since the demise
of this our customer I personally have watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds of , [ ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars] with
my bank for a very long time. A public notice has been issued by the
IBA-BANK-Togo for his available next of kin to come forward for this
inheritance payment but all to no avail. on this note I decided to seek for
a foreign investor whom his name shall be used as the next of kin as no one
has come up to be the next of kin and the banking ethics here does not allow
such money to stay more than four years because after four years the money
will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed . However in my desperate
search for urgent assistance I decided to contact you considering the urgent
need to move this funds through a foreing investor.

Now my Questions are :
1. Can you be able handle this project ?
2. Can I confide in you regards to this project ?
3. What will be the inheritance Tax covering the total amount to receive
this funds in your country?

I am Anxiously looking forward to your urgent response .

Yours Truly,

From: Mr Paius E. Dibia
International Bank Of Africa
Lome-Togo, West Africa
Private Tel/Fax:+ 228 903-5855
Private Email:paiusdibia@hotmail.com

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