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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: yusuf savimbi <yusuf13savimbi@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 05:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: NOT TO BE IGNORED PLEASE


Dear,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider my condition, contents of my letter to you and not the fact
that you have not known me before. 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 ; Mrs Linda Yusuf Savimbi ,of Congo Democratic Republic, widow to Late Mr. Julius Yusuf Savimbi(former Consular ).I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvis. I am writing from my sick bed in Cotonou,Republique Du Benin.

My husband has in an account US$10.5Million with the Bank here on the instruction that it has to be deposited with a security company here of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund his or her bank account. This is on the condition that you will take 30% of the fund for yourself,5% used for expenses while you will use the remaining 65% for the less
privilege people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege and ,also to donate for the relief of tsunami victims.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will ask our family lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give you the right of next of kin to the account in the bank.

I will also give you a text of the application you are to send to the bank. I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as I have described above.

Thanks,
Mrs. Linda Yusuf Savimbi


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