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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:
  • "certified bank draft" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • blessingdibor2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: James Martins <jamesmartins26@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:22:37 +0100
Subject: Contact my account officer for your Draft !!!



Dear Good Friend,
This is a great thing that can ever happen to us I am happy that everything is okay now and also to inform you about our success in transferring the funds through the assistance of a new partner.
I am at present in Austria with my family for final settlement and investment of my own share. Meanwhile, I deem it fit to at least for your effort in the past and attempts to assist my partners and I in transferring these funds despite that it failed, then but now we succeeded, after settling all the parties involved I demanded that I have your contact so that you can have some money sent to you to enable you settle some of your expenses.
For this I issued on your name an international bank draft through my account officer in financial bank plc, Port Novo, Republic Due Benin.
I want you to contact him immediately and arrange for the release of your draft either by courier or to arrange for the draft to be converted to cash and he would arrange on how the money will gets to you, he helped me in facilitating mine. Contact him with your full name, address, phone and fax number confirming to him that I have communicated you and ask him to send you the certified bank draft with a face value of $830, 000.00, which I kept with him as your own share for your past efforts.
I appreciated your efforts at that time. So feel free and get in touched with Mr blessing Dibor through his email and instruct him on how you want the draft sent to you.
Email:blessingdibor2@yahoo.fr
Please do let me know immediately you receive your Draft so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferings. In the moment, I am very busy trying to put myself together and invest finally here.I have forwarded instruction to him in Port Novo Rep. du Benin on your behalf to release the certified bank draft to you upon the receipt of your mailing address with instructions and to assist you in any capacity.
Thanks and God bless you.
Mr James Martins.

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