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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:
  • "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)
• 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.
  • amilakk@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "smith milton" <mithmilton111@btconnect.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:15:25 -0000
Subject: Next of kin for Late Hamzar/Respond Asap

Dear Sir/Mam,

I am Smith Milton A Banker By profession,I work with ALMAJID INTERNATIONAL BANK Benin Republic Cotonuo, I have bussines proposition wich I will gladly want to partner with together,please read details as unvailed below.

In January 2001, a Saudi Arabian Oil Consultant/Contractor (Mr. Hamzar Bouyade) made a numbered-time (fixed deposit) for twenty four calendar months valued at ($25.150 M) TWENTY FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATED DOLLARS Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification of Account status to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After two months, we sent a reminder of same letter,and finally we discovered from his contact employers,(Halliburton Oil Services Company) that Mr. Hamzar Bouyade died in a Beirut-bound charter jet Plane Cras on the December 26, 2003. Please view more details about the crash: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash

I have contacted you to assist in securing this money before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such an account remains dormant or non-operational after a period of Seven (7) years, the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund.

However, attempts has been made twice by the Government Agency concerned to confiscate this account since the expiration of the Seven years if not for my intervention as the head account and audit dept.as I have always told them that the next of kin has been in touch with us.The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner.

Note that this transaction requires utmost confidentiality,get back to me so we can proceed.

Best regards,
Smith Milton
Please Respond via My private email: amilakk@hotmail.fr

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