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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, unlike Nigeria where this type of scam was invented)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "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.
  • mrdavirobeson@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Mr David Robeson11 <mrdavidrobeson11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrdavidrobeson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:07:37 +0100
Subject: GOOD NEWS



FROM MR DAVID ROBESON
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OFAUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,CONTINENTAL BANK,COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLICTel...00229-93-85-93-19Email...mrdavirobeson@yahoo.com


Dear Friend,It is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day,although we might not have met before, I am Mr, David Robeson, the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of Continental Bank in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I 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 ten million five hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD10.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner is the late Mr. Mohamed Mohd from lebanon,who was involved in the December 26th Benin plane crash. 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 is not claimed by the end of next quarter of the month, 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 you will portray yourself as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased whose name is Mr. Mohamed Mohd.If you accept to carry out this project with me, i will offer you 30% of the total sum, while I will take 60% of the total sum and 10% for necessary expences. Upon your acceptance to do this deal , i will supply you with informations that will enable the clearance of the transfer within eight working days.Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk 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 and for the sake of my job.I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end. Here is the aircrash website= http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.htmlPlease You may contact me through my private email address mrdavidrobeson@yahoo.comYours Sincerely
Mr David Robeson
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