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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • mikeandequity@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alex pedro <alexpedro_elemeoilandgas@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:42:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re:MY INFORMATION


Attn: My Good Friend,

Dear Sir,
I know you must have recieved the first letter I sent to you by post,but if you have not, here comes a follow-up to the letter. Firstly, I must seek for your understanding and pray that God Almighty will give you the wisdom to understand my problem and be in a position to help as you will be surely blessed and rewarded.


My name is Mr Alex Benjamin,the chief auditor , foreign
exchange department of the federal ministry of finance,
Lagos head quarters.

During my recent December 2006 audit findings mith my colleaquesin this ministry,We discovered an account opened in this department in year 2000 and since 2006 ending, no body has operated on this very account again. After going through some old files in the records,I
discovered that the owner of the account was Mr.Mathew Jones,a foreigner,an engineer with NIGERIA NATIONAL
PETROLEUM COOPERATION (NNPC) PORT HARCOURT oil refinery
and he died in a motor accident june 10th 2003 and Since then,no
body has operated on that account and no other person know
anything concerning the account. The account has no nest of king,
No other beneficiary and our two months full investigation
proved to me that both the retired and the present staff
of this department /ministry do not know any thing about
this account and the total amount in the account with all the
interest rates is US$27,862,000.00(TWENTY EIGHT MILLION , EIGHT
HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS and i can not make use of it here because of Economic and Financial Crine Commission (EFCC) and if I don't remit this money out urgently, it will just be
forfeited for just nothing.

On this note, I am contacting you based on the fact that
you are a foreigner as this money can only be approved
for payment to a foreigner in a foreign country. Moreso,it
can not be approved by any local banks here as this money is in
UNITED STATES DOLLARS,hence the former owner of this account was a
foreigner too.

Since we can not make use of this money here for fear of government's seizure, I want to remit it urgently to you, but before remitting the money, I suggest that a face to face meeting will be held in either COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC,SOUTH AFRICA or Ghana to enable us know ourselves
more, sign some legal agreements on certain areas regarding this money. Even if you are not capable to participate in
this transaction, I have picked up the trust and courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable for this important business transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now or
in the future.

I know this proposal will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before.However,I based my move on trust and GOD'S directives and we will still have to meet, possibly sign some legal agreements before the final transfer of the money into any of your chosen designated bank account.

Please, treat this proposal with utmost confidentiality.
Contact me as quick as possibly through email addresss as follows:
mikeandequity@myway.com OR
paulbassey@walla.com for more details concerning this money.

Expecting your quick and urgent reply as time is not our
friend.
Thanks and GOD bless you.

Yours faithfully,

MR.ALEX BENJAMIN.




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