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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22993204796 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dr_juyostitus3@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dr_titus drtitus" <dr_titus4@msn.com>
Reply-To: dr_juyostitus3@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:06:29 +0000
Subject: DEAR TRUSTING FRIEND CALL ME AS SOON AS YOU GET THIS MAIL ON THIS LINE

From:The Desk of DR JUYOS TITUS
Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Republic of Benin. West Africa.
Alt/Email:dr_juyostitus3@yahoo.fr


STRICTLY SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,


Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you. I am
DR JUYOS TITUS,from (AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK),Republic of Benin

.During the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of twelve million
five hundred thousand united states dollars (USD$12.500.000.00) floating in
an account opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has
operated on this account again, and after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a
[HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash, hence the money is floating.
After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this
account except his wife who was also
invovled in the crash, and the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that
untill his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(African
Development Bank)Benin Rep.got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come
forward and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines and policies but up to date nobody came up to this bank
as his next of kin or relative.Since the
country law dose not allow such fund to stay more than five years, i hereby
implore you to act as the the next of kin i will
funish you with all the informations when the need arises. For easy
communication farward to me thus.

1.Your Full name /adddress .
2.Telephone number.
3. Fax numbers .

It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out
to defray any expences that might be
incured during the process of the ransaction. Then 60% will be for me which
shall be release after the funds must
have been remitted into your bank account. Email:Reply to this
alternative:dr_juyostitus3@yahoo.fr

Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you.

Best Regards,

DR JUYOS TITUS

DEAR TRUSTING FRIEND CALL ME AS SOON AS YOU GET THIS MAIL ON THIS LINE
+229-93-20-47-96

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