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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "federal republic of benin" (Benin is no Federal Republic)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million 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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Kenny Martins" <kennymart12@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 02:39:30 -0600
Subject: PROPOSAL

From : Ms Kenny Martins.
Manager Foreign Remittance Dept.
InterContinental Bank Benin West-Africa
PALM GROVIE.
Attn: sir
It is a pleasure writing to you at this moment of the
day, I am Ms Kennny Martins, the Manager incharge of
Foreign Remittance Dept of ( InterContinental Bank in
Cotonou Benin Republic.) I and my colleagues deem it
fit to contact you regarding to a transaction that
will favour both of us at the end, and I got your
contact in my search for a reputable and reliable
person to help me claim the fund in question.
We discovered the sum of ( USD 81.5 MILLION DOLLARS )
belonging to a deceased customer of this bank a
national of Lebanon,( A Lebanese Man) by name ( Late
Mr.Mohamed Kamal Ali.) The fund has been lying in a
suspence account without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the account owner is late, who
was involved in the December 26th Benin plane crash.
THIS IS REAL AND TRUE SAYING FROM MY HEART DEAR BELOVE
FRIEND. THIS IS NOT SCAM MY BELOVED FRIEND . IT IS
REAL,TRUE AND 100% RISK FREE BUSINESS BY GOD FOR US TO
DO WITH PRAYERS.
Here is the plain crash website bellow .
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
THIS IS REAL
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn
account whose owner will be portrayed as the
beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer
of the bank, The foriegn account owner will impost
himself as the next of kin to the deceased and respond
positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed
up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If
the over due fund if not claimed by the end of next
quarter, the government of the Federal Republic of
Benin will take over the ownership of the fund in line
with the Federal Edict Act of 1979.
We do not want the government to take over the
ownership of this money, that is why I contacted you
for us to do the deal together, so that we will
portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the
deceased customer.
If you accept to carry out this project with us, we
will offer you 30% of the total sum, while I and my
colleagues involved will take 70% of the total sum,
Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will
jointly effect the transfer within eight working days.
Be rest assured that this transaction carries no
risk,100% free and no extra responssibilities on your
part, except the above mentioned roles and normally
you will be required to maintain absolute information
and absolute secrecy throughout the duration of this
transaction, because discussing it with a third party
might jeopardise the entire transaction.
Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed
information which are confirmable before you can make
up your mind to apply.
I am looking forward to receiving your interesting
response on this project as this will greatly enrich
the both of us at the end. Please reply to kenny_deary @ y a h o o. c o m.
Regards,
Kenny.

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