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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • robhonfo1@rome.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: robert honfo <honforob2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <robhonfo2@post.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:51:51 +0000
Subject: From Mr.Robert Honfo.



From Mr.Robert Honfo.Villa 6 Riviera 11CoCody-AbidjanCote D'Ivoire Telephone +22507558683REPLY TO:(Alternative Email:robhonfo1@rome.com)PRIVATE AND URGENT. Hello, First i will explain my self in brief for you before we proceed.Am Mr.Robert Honfo the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department with one of the Bank here in ABIDJAN,COTE D,IVOIRE I am writing to Seek your interest over a business, also personal account manager to late depositor of these said amount as his account manager I have full knowledge that late Mr.Morris Thompson fixed sum of $18,500,000.00m US dollars with our bank. On February 4 2000,Mr.Morris Thompson, the wife(Thelma Thompson) and their only daughter(Sheryl Thompson) are in aboard with Alaska Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident ofAlaska. Firstly before I further I have made several inquires through their embassy to locate any of his extended relatives, this has prove unsuccessful and these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless his next of kin or relative applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines yet nobody has come for the claim untill now. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to excape with the fund,and as such i vial to make this business proposal to you so that my bank will release the fund into your account as the next of kin to bank deceased customer for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for claims and i don't want this money to go into the bank treasury. Infact i know the fund will not even go into the bank treasury,but our top bank officials(directors)will only share it among themselves into their accounts. The Banking law and guideline here in ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE, stipulates that if any customer accountor property remains unserviceable or dormant,and unclaimed after 8 years, the account will be confiscated and transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Ivoran cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,inrespect to the provision of a foreign account,and your imense contribution to champion the course of transfering the fund to your account. and 60% would be for me. There after the bank will transferred the fund to your account I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable my bank transfer the fund into your account,i will send to you the text of application which you will send to my bank as next of kin to the deceased customer and that will be when you indicate your interest in the business,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of our bank deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted . Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is risk-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required informations will be perfectly made for you to champion the course of the transaction with my bank without any hitch or risk .You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately. Thanks for yourunderstanding.Your’s sincerely,Mr.Robert Honfo.
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