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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)
  • "you will be given 30%" (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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Andrew Mena <aandrewmena001@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: aandrewmena@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:50:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Happy Easter //Please reply urgently.


UNION TOGOLEISE BANK,
EXT 4C/ ML.BUILDING
No.122 RUE DE FRANCE
LOME TOGO
WEST AFRICA

ATTN/PLS,

With your quick response,I want to transfer to overseas account ($6,000.000.00 USD) Six million United States Dollars) from UNION TOGOLEISE BANK here in Lome Togo, I want to ask you, If you are not capable to. quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even a new dollar a/c can serve to receive this money,

As long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important transaction trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.my name is Mr.Andrew Mena,The UTB Manager here in Lome Togo,main office. During the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in this bank in1999 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died
in air crash of Egyptair 1999. Now without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr.Edmund Miller Sr,a foreigner,and the manager of petro-technical support services,a chemical enginer by profession and he died since 1998.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he was the principal owner and Director of MILLERS CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTAINANCE INC. here in Lome-Togo with its branches at Accra in Ghana and Cotonou in Benin

We will start the first transfer with Three million United States Dollar[$3,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account. The total amount involve is Six million United States Dollars only [$6,000.000.00]. I want to first transfer $3,000.000.00 [Three million United States Dollar] from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest,

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c is a foreigner. However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together,

I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down.

With my influence and my position in this bank the bank official can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account that you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply
Thanks
Best Regards
Mr.Andrew Mena



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