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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: jonas eyadema <barr_jonas_eyadema012@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jonas_eyadema1951@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:01:09 +0100
Subject: Claim notification,urgent, if you can handle it with me.



Date 02/11/2007
Dear Friend,
I apologize to you for any inconveniences caused if this mail does not meet your demands, though I do not intend to embarrass you by the contents of this very mail.
I am Barrister Jonas Eyadema. I was the personal Attorney to Late Mr.Khidir Hassain who was a citizen of Lebanon but lived and did his business here in Cotonou with his family and he was the CEO of Suh Properties before his sudden death along with his family on friday December 26th 2003 in Benin plane crash.
You can view this web site for moreclarifications. www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
Before his sudden death, he made a fixed Deposit valued at USD5.4million (five Million four hundred thousand United States Dollars Only) here in Cotonou with a Bank as a fixed asset.
Unfortunately, he lost his life on board in Boeing 727, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday December 26th 2003,He left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin. I have searched for the relatives for more than two years without any success and after 3 years, if no claims are made by any of the deceased relative, the money will be sent to unclaimed accounts and will be embezzled by the bank or government officials.
It is mandatory that i provide the relation of my late client to the bank, as the bank has contacted me as their late customers Attorney to present to them the late Client's next of kin so that the deposit can be paid to him or her.
This mail is written to solicit your acceptance for you to be presented as the relation of my Late Client, for them to release the fund to you, while i come over to meet with you for my own share, and for investment plans. if we can trust each other.
As it stands now, Anybody I present to the bank as the next of kin to late Mr.Khidir Hassain, will be accepted by his Bank, therefore I wish to present you to the Bank as the rightful beneficiary to my late Client's assets, if I can get an assurance from you, that you will not cheat me after the fund is credited in your bank account.
Upon your acceptance, I shall give you other details for the successful claim of the fund, I will also secure from the probate registry, a latter of administration, which you will use in contacting the bank for them to approve the release of the assets to you.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($5.4, million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I canshare the money 50 / 50.
Therefore I am assuring you that this claim is 100% risk free, as i will get all the legal document here that will backup our claims even to your country's law enforcement agency's to clear the legitimacy of the fund after the transfer.
Please update me on your own option urgently, to enable us proceed with out any further delay, as time is already running out.
Thank you very much for your anticipated cooperation and please remember the utmost confidentiality that this transaction requires, while I expect your prompt response.
Yours faithfully, Barr Jonas Eyadema Esq.



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