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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:
  • "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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. PAYNE GABBY SENIOR" <pgjr21tg@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:40:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PARTNERHIP OFFERING


FROM DR PAYNE GABBY JR.
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
UNION BANK OF TOGO,IN WEST AFRICA.

DEAR.FRIEND

Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am DR PAYNE GABBY JR , the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of UNION BANK OF TOGO in West Africa. I and my colleagues 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.

We discovered the sum of Fifteen million United States Dollars (USD15M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner late Mr. Mohamed Mohd from libanon, who was involved in the 25th December 2003, 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 is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank.

The foriegn account owner will impost himself 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 fund. If the over due fund if not claimed by the end of this last quarter, the government of the Federal Republic of Togolaise will take over the fund.So please if my offer interest you kindly get back to me with the following informations of yours to enable me forward them on your behalf to the Foreign Remittance Department here in our bank for the immediate process and release of the fund to your account.

1- YOUR FULL NAME
2- YOUR HOME/OFFICE ADDRESS.
3- YOUR PRIVATE PHONE/FAX NUMBER.
4- YOUR AGE/OCCUPATION.
5- YOUR BANK NAME/ADDRESS.
6- YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER
7- THE SWIFT CODE/ROUTING NO.IF ANY.
8- YOUR FIRST AND SECOND PAGE OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY OF YOUR VALID ID SCAN AND SEND TO ME.

Regards,
Call me for more details 00228 911 7025.
DR PAYNE GABBY JR


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