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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • h_kas2005@maktoob.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Hassan Kassim" <h_kas2005@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 11:26:25 +0100
Subject: Financial Bank Benin

From the desk of:
Mr Hassan Kassim.
Financial Bank-Benin.
770 Zone d'Ambassade,
Cotonou-Republic of Benin.

Dear Comrade,
Compliments of the season to you.
This Letter might come as a surprise to you, especially since we have never met or discussed before. Basically, the message might sound strange, but it is in fact, very real.If only you care to know,The truth is that I should have notified you first through a more confidential means even if it is at least to respect your integrity,please accept my humble apologies if I had caught you unawares.
I frankly do not mean any harm in passing my goodwill message to you.I was also a personal accountant to Late Mr Morris Thompson here in Benin because he was one of the directors in a giant company here in the Republic of Benin..
I am writing you following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand united states of America dollars ($11,250,000usd) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31st 2000, including his wife and the only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
Since we got information about his death, our bank have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his leftover fund,because our bank can not release it unless someone applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased client as indicated in our banking giudelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash and leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund in the custody of our bank.
It is therefore upon this discovery,I as an accountant in our bank now decided to present you as the relation to Late Mr Morris Thompson in order for you to be the beneficiary of his leftover fund in our bank here in the Republic of Benin.
Now for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement
since nobody ever applied as the beneficiary for the leftover fund of the deceased. I do not want this fund to be confiscated by our bank's board of directors as their personal wealth or as an unclaimed fund. The banking law and guidelines here
stipulates that such money remained after seven (7)years the fund will be transferred into the bank's treasury as an unclaimed fund.
I am now seeking your consent to present you as the next of kin or as a cousin to the deceased customer.
All you should do is to apply to our bank as the beneficiary and I will be furnishing you with any informations related to the deceased in order to make the transaction a succesful one.Please be very honest to me likewise myself to you.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you received this mail you should contact me by return mail or phone call. Please note
that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these fund has been finalized. I can not apply as the beneficiary because I am a staff of the bank.
I will discuss much in details when I receive your response.
My alternative e-mail address is: h_kas2005@maktoob.com

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