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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:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22993134275 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • financialbankbenin@kaixo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: stevensteressa <stevensteressa@orange.nl>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:47:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From: Mrs. Teressa Stevens


From: Mrs. Teressa Stevens,
This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the co-operation of a new partner from Japan. Presently I'm in Japan under going through more medical treatment while my new partner is investment the total amount the way I instructed him. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my Bank in Benin-Republic on the under listed contact below:

ATTN:Mr.Gbenga Wetego.
(FINANCIAL BANK BENIN)
FBB) Cotonou Republique du Benin.
Telex: 5326 FIBANK
Telehone; +22993134275
E-mail; financialbankbenin@kaixo.com
Ask the bank to transfer to your account the sum of ($800,000.00) Eight hundred thousand dollars from my account number 00223950001701. Deposit Code: xxczz. Which I kept for you as compensation for your past efforts and attempt to assist me in this matter. I appreciate your efforts at that time so much. So feel free and contact my bank in Benin, and give them instructions on where to transfer your fund immediately.
Right now my current partner is not happy that I allocate such amount to you bearing in mind your nonchalant attitude to the transaction at its crucial stage.

Please let me know immediately you receive your money in your account, so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. At the moment, I'm seriously down due to my ill health.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Teressa Stevens.

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