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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)
  • "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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +22990939516 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: yoroba aboki <yoroba_aboki@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:23:30 +0100 (BST)
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE



INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
FROM LARRY DAVID.
COTONOU BENIN
WEST AFRICA
TEL: +229-90939516

ATTN:Dear Hermione.T.Granger,
You might be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me personally. I am LARRY Y.ABOKI I am the the frist son of late MR MICHAEL DAVID ABOKI who was murdered by the Zimbabwe war veterans and irate black people. I got your contact e-mail address through Benin chamber of commerce and industry. After due consideration of your profile, hence I decided to write to you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to my family shattered by a tyrannical Government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party. President Robert Mugabe.
Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe the Government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land being occupied by the white farmers. This action hassled to killing of some
members of opposition party including my father who did not support this ill-fated action.
But before the death of my father, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$14M (FOURTHEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to Cotonou Benin and deposited it in a Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm machinery and chemicals for agricultural purpose in Benin and establishment of a new farm in Swaziland.
This money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 august 2003 the war veterans and some spotters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed my father to death and my second brother of 22yrs. Since then they have been
terrorizing me and my mother but we managed to escape to Cotonou
Benin as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
Our position in Benin dose not permits us to open an account or to operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your account so that you will assist me to invest this money in your country. I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you accept to assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Cotonou Benin so that you can
help us to open a non-resident bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring the money into your nominating account overseas. I have two option for you,firstly, you can choose to have certain percentage of the
money for nominating your account in this transaction or we can go into partnership with you for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify with me.I will then
furnish you with every detail you needed to know. We have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be incurred during the time of this transaction.
If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the money while remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you are really capable and willing to assist us please contact me immediately.
Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible, I'm in dire to leave this country soonest. Thanks for you're mutual co-operation. AND I EXPECT YOUR URGENT CALL TO THIS PHONE NUMBER +229-90939516 SO THAT I WILL FURNISH YOU WITH MORE INFORMATION.
Thanks in advance,
LARRY Y.ABOKI



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