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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us 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)
  • ",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)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Mark Agbanwe <mr_mark_agbanwe22@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mr_mark_agbanwe@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:00:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Please Get Back To Me


Dearest,

How are you today and how is your health, I hope fine and I also hope my letter does not come to you as a surprise. I am Mark Agbanwe, the son of the late Mr. Paul B. Agbanwe, and a student of the University of Togo.

Recently, I have received an insurance letter from the Life Insurance Company of Scotland, stating that my attention is needed at the company for the claim of my late father's insurance fund with them at the total sum of USD$5,000,000.00 (Five Million US Dollars), as the rightful hare to my late fathers empire.

Sorry, if I am bothering you with my story, but you have to know that I'm not telling you all these just for fun, rather because I really need your assistance in this matter, because I am yet a student and have no body but my poor, ill mother. Actually, my father made his ways right and made his money working very hard during his lifetime, but it turned to be that I and my mother has been suffering poverty ever since the death of my dad and since then, we have been on a family dispute with the rest of my dad's family members, just because we have refused to release information to them concerning the Insurance Fund in Scotland, after they have ceased all my father hard earned assets and funds in other bank accounts here in Togo.

Actually, I really need your assistance if I can trust you as a friend and a brother, with the impression I had after glancing through your profile. I want you to use your influence and status to assist I and my mother with this claim.

We could get you a Power of Attorney for the claim, proving that we really authorized you to make the claim on our behalf. Please respond with answer, if you will be willing to assist us.

Thank you,
Mark Agbanwe.

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