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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • odafe_ca@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "odafe ede" <odafeede@latinmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:31:58 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM BARRISTER ODAFE EDE


BARRISTER ODAFE EDE
SENIOR ADVOCATE, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PRACTITIONER=20
ODAFE EDE CHAMBERS & FINANCIAL ATTORNEY
506 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU =96 BENIN REPUBLIC
ALTERNATIVE:odafe_ca@hotmail.fr
TELL: 229 93004807

=20
DEAR SIR / MADAM,

IT IS WITH HEARTFELT HOPE THAT I WRITE TO SEEK YOUR CO-OPERATION AND AS=
SISTANCE IN THE CONTEXT STATED BELOW. I KNOW THAT A DEAL OF THIS MAGNIT=
UDE WILL MAKE ANYONE WORRIED AND APPREHENSIVE BUT I AM ASSURING YOU NOT=
TO BE, AS ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THIS ENDEAVOR.

I AM. ODAFE EDE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. A DECEASE CLIENT OF MINE, BY NAME MR=
THOMAS EDWARDS,WHO HEREINAFTER SHALL BE REFFERED TO AS MY CLIENT,DIED =
AS A RESULT OF HEART-RELATED CONDITION IN 2006.

I AM CONTACTING YOU TO ASSIT IN REPATRIATING THE MONEY LEFT BEHIND BY M=
Y CLIENT BEFORE IT IS CONFISCATED OR DECLARED UNSERVICEABLE BY THE BANK=
WHERE THIS DEPOSIT VALUE AT (US9.5,000,000.00 NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRE=
D THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) IS LOGDED THIS BANK HAS ISSUED ME A N=
OTICED TO CONTACT THE NEXT OF KIN OR THE ACCOUNT WILL BE CONFISCATED. M=
Y PROPOSITION TO YOU IS TO SEEK YOUR CONSENT TO PRESENT YOU AS THE NEXT=
OF KIN BENEFICIARY OF MY LATE CLIENT, SO THAT THE PROCEEDS OF THIS ACC=
OUNT CAN BE PAID TO YOU THEN WE CAN SHARE THE AMOUNT ON A MUTUALLY AGRE=
ED PERCENTAGE.

ALL LEGAL DOCUMENT TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIM AS MY CLIENT NEXT OF KIN WILL =
BE PROVIDED. ALL I REQUIRE FROM YOU IS YOUR HONEST CO-OPERATION TO ENAB=
LE US SEE THIS TRANSACTION THROUGH. THIS WILL BE EXECUTED UNDER A LEGIT=
IMATE ARRANGEMENT THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ANY BREACH OF THE LAW IF T=
HIS BUSINESS PROPOSITION OFFENDS YOUR MORAL VALUES, DO ACCEPT MY APOLOG=
Y.


BE REST ASSURED ONCE MORE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE AND T=
HERE WILL BE NO HITCHES EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE, AS EVERY SUPPOSEDL=
Y LOOSE ENDS HAVE BEEN KNITTED BY OUR LEGAL TEAM. INDICATE YOUR INTERES=
T BY FORWARDING TO ME YOUR FULL NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR FURTHER D=
ETAILS REGARDING THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

PLEASE ACCORD MAXIMUM CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY TO THIS TRANSACTION.

YOU CAN CALL ME ON 229 93004807
BEST REGARDS,


BARRISTER, ODAFE EDE .
ATTORNEY AT LAW



=20


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