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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: linda kargbo <julie22_was@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: linda.kargbo89@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:43:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: RE.KIND URGENT HELP


Dear Sir/Mdam

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should
please consider my condition, contents of my letter to you and not the fact
that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your
contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.
I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Linda Kargbo,of Cotonou-Republic Benin,widow to Late Mr. Julius Kargbo(former Consular ). I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvis.Needless of me to bore you the the story of my life and that of my family,but it is good i educate you a little so that you will know where i am coming from.

I am writing from my sick bed.I have in an account US$10.5Million with the Bank here on the instruction that it has to be deposited with a security company. With my health condition and because my wife deserted and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund his or her bank account. This is on the condition that you will take 30% of the fund for yourself,5% used for expenses while you will use the remaining 65% for the less privilege people in the society.
However,that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege and ,also to donate for the relief of tsunami victims.


If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will ask my family lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give you the right of next of kin to the account in the bank.I will also give you a text of the application you are to send to the bank.

I cannot predict what will be my fate but the doctor's prediction says i will not survive the situation but you should please ensure that the fund is used as I have described above as soon as the fund will be transferred into your account,

Thanks,

Mrs. Linda Kargbo


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