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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 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.
• 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.
  • rosehod88@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "miss rose hodonou" <rosehod41@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:16:32 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

From Miss Rose Hodonou.
Personal Assistance To The Director,
Omega Finance Security Company,
Cotonou Benin Republic

Dearest Beloved,

Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day,iam Miss Rose Hodonou, the
Personal Assistance To The director Of The Above Mentioned Security Company
in Cotonou-Benin Republic.

I 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.

I discovered the sum of Four million United States Dollars (USD4M) belonging
to a deceased customer of this Security Company,the fund has been lying in
asuspence Vault as a family treasure without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the Owner late Coporal Fredrik Whisky,from
Sierra-Leone, 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) registered as(FAMILY TREASURE) is now ready for transfer to
our foriegn Vault account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary
and next of kin to the deceased customer of the Security Company.

The foriegn Vault account owner will impost himself/herself as the next of
kin to the deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who
wishes to speed up the
release and transfer of his inherited (FAMILY TREASURE).
If the over due family treasure if not claimed by the end of next quarter,
the government of the Federal Republic of Benin will take over the ownership
of the treasure in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979.

I do not want the government to take over the ownership of this Treasure,
that is why I contacted you for us to do the deal together, so that i will
portray you as the
bonafide next of kin to the deceased whose name is Coporal Fredrik Whisky.

If you accept to carry out this project with me, i will offer you 30% of the
total sum, while I take 70% of the total sum.Upon your acceptance to do this
deal with me, i
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. Your acceptance email
should be sent to my Private Email Address:rosehod88@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regards,
Miss Rose Hodonou

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