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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)
• 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.
  • +22997310543 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barthlomew Hougheji" <dr_barthhougheji61@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: dr_barthhougheji50@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:05:08 +0100
Subject: Urgent Attention : Dear Gagnon

Attn: Dear Gagnon,

 

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I will introduce myself  first to you.My name is DR.BARTHLOMEW HOUGHEJI ,Manager in the accounts management section of  BANK OF AFRICA ( B.O.A ) here in Bénin Republic. One of our accounts with holding balance of USD15,000,000(Fifteen Million United States Dollars) has been dormant and it has not been operated for the past years, an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr.Austin Gagnon who died along with his entire family on 25th December 2003 in a plane crash.
 
VIEW THIS WEB SITE http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html.
And since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds.
 
I have secretly discussed this matter with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to make this deal. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin since you have the same surname with him so that this fund will be released to you after due processes have been followed.
 
This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundary, terrorism or any other illegal act. On your interest, let me hear from you.

 

Please contact me through my private E-mail :   dr_barthlomew@sifymail.com

 

Regards,
Dr Barthlomew Hougheji
 
 
DISCLAIMER:
This message contains confidential information and is intended only for specified addressee. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Call me on 
+229 973 1 05 43

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