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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:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Norton D. Woloma" <ndwoloma002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ndwoloma001@excite.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:34:36 +0100
Subject: Re: Transfer of $25.500.000.00 million to your account.

From: Dr.Norton D. Woloma
Audltor General Eco Bank
Rue du Gouverneur Bayo 01 1280 Cotonou-Benin Rep.
Tel:(00229) ..............
E-Mail:........................

Attn: Sir,
Re: Transfer of $25.500.000.00 million to your account.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.
Though, this medium (internet) has been greatly abused, i choose
to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium
of communication.

However, this correspondence is unofficial and private and it should be
treated as such. At first I will like to assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both prates.

My name is Dr.Norton D. Woloma , I work as the operational manager in
accounts management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of
a
prime banks here in west Africa .On a routine inspection I discovered a
dormant
domiciliary account with a balance of us $25.500.000.00 (Twenty five million
five
hundred thousand dollars only) .The account holder (The deceased) was
believed
to be in charge of former Iraq President, Late Saddam Hussein secret of
CRUDE
OIL transactions in Africa before his death .On further discreet homer has
died along
ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the
account
and no other person know about this account
.
I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my
partner and is willing to approve the transfer with foreign bank account
because the
former perator of the a/c is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no
written
or oral WILL attached to the account , no beneficiary and nobody to come
again for
the clam of this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will
provide to
you if you are interested , therefore Indeed your cooperation in this
transaction .
This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not
transfer the fund
out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order
to claim this money .i only needs your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank
account information for the transfer. All arrangement that will ensure a
smooth transfer of
the fund to the account which you are to nominate is already in place. You
should
provide me with your current account information for the transfer and your
direct cell phone
lines for easy communication .I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling
this
transaction. At the conclusion of this transaction, your share will be 35%
of the total
sum, 60% me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both
parties might
insure during the process of the transfer.

The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts .I will first
transfer . USD 12 million to you account as a test transfer .I will fly over
to
meet you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed
percentage .i
will have the remaining balance of USD 13.5Million transferred to your
account
without any disappointment from your side.

Regards

Dr.Norton D. Woloma

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