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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barri_okoh_kingsley@myway.com
  • mrs_rosekader@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rose\.kader" <rose.kader@laposte.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:26:28 +0200
Subject: Hello My Dear,


Hello My Dear,
Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and may be unbelief,owing largely to the atrocities people commit these days. But this mail comes from a devastated,sorrowful and emotional ladened soul that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited person to wipe away my tears, perhaps when I am gone beyond this sinful world.As an international subject,therefore,with due respect and apology,I want you to handle it very descreetly, confidentially and with utmost secrecy.
My purpose of writing to you is to seek your assistance to handle and manage my late husband's financial assets and take adequate care of our young children,Duncan,12years and Belinda 8years.They are both studying in the American International School,Accra,Ghana. My name is Mrs. ROSE KADER.I am an American,a widow of circumstance, married to a Swedish Engineer who resided here in Cotonou,Benin Republic with me before his untimely death.My husband died in an auto crash while going to diagnose and seek medical attention for a sickness that defied medical treatment.
Presently, I am diagnosed to have a third degree HIV virus and therefore suffering a terminal sickness of ACQURIED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMME - AIDS -. I may die any moment but wish you to assist in keeping the family name and circle alive. This mail is written for me by the matron of this hospital as I am too weak to engage in any other physical endeavors. Documented proofs for confirmation, on request, could be provided. I have entrusted the sum of US$16,000,000.00 (Sixteen Million Dollars), the accrued savings and life insurance gratuity of my late husband, with the custody of Security & Finance Trust Company. Be informed that this company and the lawyer does not know that the box I deposite in the Security & Finance Trust Company contained raw cash.I only told them that it was personal belongings. It is handled by a Lawyer. See contacts below. I want you to liase with the Lawyer and recover the money for your prudent care, management and safe keeping. Use it to secure
travelling papers for my children to leave Accra,Ghana and train them as your adopted children.
I place no conditions on your management except taking good care of my children.I am not fearful of death but I am seriously worried about the safety and future survival of my two children.
(Contact):
(1) DELTA FIRM CHAMBER
BARRISTER OKOH KINGSLEY
(Senior Advocate of Benin)
01 B.P 10005
Cotonou,Benin Republic.
E-mail: barri_okoh_kingsley@myway.com,
At the moment and till I die, my correspondence with you will be mostly through e-mail.I may not have the opportunity to speak with you while on my sick bed. You should contact the Lawyer to do the change of ownership from my name into your name and identity to enable you collect the money from the Finance and Trust Company here in Cotonou, the Republic of Benin. This is the only condition that will give you the right of ownership and full beneficiary status.
I want this transaction to be handled with dispatch before I give up the ghost.I will appreciate it the more if you give me your reply no matter your state of mind, negatively or positively, it is alright. Please, reply on:mrs_rosekader@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless.
MRS. ROSE KADER
Chu Tokoin hospital,
Cotonou,Republic of Benin

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