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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • smcpdonald@yahoo.fr
  • smcpdonald@latinmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: smcpdonalds@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:02:01 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20TRANSACTION=2E?=

BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
Dated Thursday 06th,September
07.

Ref:GR.U2-O1.

I hereby inform you that Dr. Piero Nete one of your kinsmen has abandoned
over 5 million USD.. in Benin for years since death by Plane Crash 2003
incident.
With much pleasure I contact you after satisfactory appraisal and acceptance
of your proven track records as one of the kinsmen to come and claim hold
on the funds or else bank will soon confiscate the account.
In fact, they wanted to confiscate the account, and declare the fund an
Unclaimed Treasure. In a good sense I can testify about bank obligation
and respects for seeking my assistance to bring my client Next of Kin{a
relative} to claim the deposits with them.
Nature will judge me if I forfeit the money in the bank just like that.It
will be a neglect and insult to my person for being his Attorney and a disregard
to the person of my client who died sorrowfully,therefore kindly take heart
and comply as soon as possible since there is no means of tracing a Legal
Next of Kin .After all my effort to trace his blood line relative had proved
abortive ,I decided to contact you.
Meanwhile, I will like you to consider my personal interest to share the
funds with you as the Attorney of Dr.Piero Nete who is a Gold Marchant
from your country and as well my client.
I will be most humbled if you comply unfalteringly to work with me in confidentiality
if you are an interested partner, if you are interested kindly contact me
preferably through my private email { smcpdonald@yahoo.fr OR smcpdonald@latinmail.com
} with your complete-Home Address, Phone /Fax Contacts including your Banking
Details for confirmation to enable provide you with further assistance
to enable you repatriate the abandoned funds to your country where it will
be most convenient for us to decide on how to settle ourselves from the
funds.
Among treasuries to repatriate are included with 50KGS of AU Gold Dust ,22
carat with 99 purity deposited in Benin and another country Lome,Togo with
200KGS. of AU Gold Dust in the same quality with the 50KGS he had in Benin.ALL
in West African Countries.
I consent to make a fruitful and successful business acquaintance with you
in a transparent and non logistic basis applicably in our daily common relationship
aimed toward future and progress.
Thanks a lot for your humble co-operation with an extended regards from
me.
Once again I am assuring your security and safetiness in all legal proceedure
regarding this business proposal.
I want you keep this message strictly and confidentially from being disclosed
to a third party for security reasons and for the appropriate management
of this transactions.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Marc Donald, Esq.
233 Dasoo-uwouradji,cepamo maitu
Cotonou.Republic of Benin.

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