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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • selinagabriel_marinze2007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SELINA GABRIEL MARINZE <selinagabriel_marinze52004@hotmail.fr>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:02:19 +0100
Subject: Greeting in the name of our Almighty God.



Dear Respected one.

Good Day Sir/Madam and we hope you can treat us like the way you stand with your children and welcome us in your country and has our parent has died in aviation. I am Gabriel Marinze 22 years old and my sister Selina Marinze 24 years Old citizen of Ghana, my father Benjamin Kodjo Marinze is a Gold Merchant in Ghana, who died with our mother in a plane crash in Benin in 2003 when going for his Gold business in Cotonou-Benin Republic in West Africa .

Our parent was into legal gold minning business before his died in a plane crash which you will find the website of the incident below.

website= http://www.iafpa.org.uk/news-template.php?t=4&id=1291

Our father has succeded in safety keep $35.7 Millions U.S Dollars for us with a Bank in Cotonou-Benin during his life time Business Gold Mining Merchant Business before his death in Benin plane crash with our mother,

Please we need your help because the bank has call us to look for a foreign partner who will help us invest of the fund our father has safety keep for us in there bank .

Whom, Will transfer the fund for investment purpose and who will be sincere to invite us to his/her country without cheating us or doing bad to us .

Please Sir/Madam , Can you now permit us to ask you these few questions:-

1. Send us your full name and contact2. Send us your direct telephone number3. Can you honestly help us as your son ?4. Can will completely trust you?5. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the transfer of the fund to you for investment purspose?

Sir/Madam We are willing to give you 30% of the total sum and the remain 70% for me and my sister .

Please mail us immidately to know your decision before will looking else where.
Please,Consider us and get back to us as soon as possible.

Treat this email confidential because of the fund involved .

Thanks and We wait for your urgent reply.

please kindly send your reply immediately to our private e.mail box.The email box is (selinagabriel_marinze2007@yahoo.com)
Thank you.

We pray for you and your family that May Almighty God will not let you or your family see such incindent of Plane Crash death (Amen).

Thanks and our greeting to your family.

God Blessed.

Your's Sincerely.Gabriel Marinze & Selina Marinze.
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