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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "100% hitch free" (a common phrase found 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.
  • wetago11@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LYONEL EGOBIA" <lyeg4a@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:54:22 +0000
Subject: FROM : MR LYONEL E.WETAEGO AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT. FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT

FROM : MR LYONEL E.WETAEGO AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT. FOREIGN REMITTANCE
DEPT. INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA LOME TOGO S.A 13 RUE DU COMMERCE BP.346
LOME -TOGO WEST AFRICA.


I am writing following the impressive information about your profile through
the website your capability and reliability to champion this opportunity. In
my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (TEN million US dollars).
In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his
entire family in APRIL,2000 in a ROAD ACCIDENT. Since we got this
information
about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and
claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it
as next
of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial
policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or
relation
died along side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the
money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the dece! ased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don t want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills. The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after long
period, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine
cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 30% of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision
of a foreign
account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction
and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. Thereafter I and my colleagues
will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your private, telephone and fax numbe r for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will
be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail
the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this
transaction is 100% hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You
should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. I decided
to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of the world
where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are
civil servants. We can conclude this operation within ten banking days.
Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for more information, all
confirmable before you apply
if you want. May God be with you. Trusting to hear from you shortly. Peace
and love always. Best regards MR LYONEL EGOBIA I.B.A.TOGO (MY PRIVATE PHONE
NUMBER
+2289270333) Contact me at (wetago11@yahoo.com)

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