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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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 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.
  • +2289133786 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • jeremiahadams2001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Benson Denis" <bensondenis2001@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:12:28 +0000
Subject: Hellow

From:The Desk Of Mr Benson Denis.
International Relation's Manager
Union Togolaise Bank .
Lome Republic Of Togo
Tel:+228 913 3786
Reply To Email: jeremiahadams2001@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Friend,

I am Mr Benson Denis. the International Relation's manager at the foreign
remittance Department of (UNION TOGOLAISE BANK IN TOGO) I am writing to seek
your intrest over a transaction. In my department we discoveredan abandoned
sum of $27.5m(Twenty Seven Million five Hundred Thousand Dollar) .In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who
died along with his entire family in a auto crash in August 2003.

Since we got information about his Death,as the International Relation's
Manager of the bank I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or
relation died alongside with him at the auto crash leaving nobody behind for
the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates
that if such money remained unclaimed after Five years, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner from United State of America.

We agree that 50% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, 50%
would be for me .I will be waiting for your immediate response to enable me
send to you the copy of his death certificate from the hospital after the
accident, deposit certificate issued and signed by our bankwhen
he deposited the us$27.5 and my personal identity.This transaction is very
easy and simple,and it is 100% risk free

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on my
telephone number+228 913 3786.Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Also send your telephone number for easy communications.

Regards,

Mr Benson Denis

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