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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "federal republic of benin"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Buhari Abdul" <buhari_abdul1981@msn.com>
Reply-To: buhari_abdul12@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:56:13 +0000
Subject: FROM MR Buhari Abdul

FROM MR Buhari Abdul
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
CONTINENTAL BANK BENIN,
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC



Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am MR Buhari Abdul, the
director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of Continental Bank Benin
in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I and my colleagues deem it fit to contact you
regarding to a transaction that will favour both of us at the end,and i got
your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable person to help me
claim the fund in question.We discovered the sum of fiffteen million United
States Dollars (USD15M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The
fund has been lying in asuspence account without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the account owner late Mr. Mohammed Moh from lebanon,
who was involved in the December 25th Benin plane crash. Here is the air
crash
website
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer
of the bank.The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin
to the deceased and respond positivelylike a true next of kin who wishes to
speed up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due
fund if not claimed by the end of next quarter, the government of the
Federal Republic of Benin will take over the ownership of the fund in line
with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government to take
over the ownership of this money, that is why I contacted you for us to do
the deal together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin
to the deceased whose name is Mr. Mohammed Moh.If you accept to carry out
this project with us, we will offer you 30% of the total sum, while I and my
colleagues involved will take 70% of the total
sum.Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect the
transfer within eight working days.
Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra
responssibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and
normally you will be required to maintain absolute information and absolute
secrecy throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it
with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction.I am looking
forward to receiving your interesting response on this project as this will
greatly enrich the both of us at the end.You may contact me through
this number(00229 93703809)

Best Regards,
MR Buhari Abdul.

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