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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Tony Mensah <tony_mensah630@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tony_mensah636@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:51:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Private Message From Mr.Tony Mensah.


From Mr.Tony Mensah.
Auditing and Foreign Bills
Equitorial Security Sarl "E.S.S.L.T",
Ecowas Monetry Union.
Lome Togo.


Mr.Morris Thompson.

An overdue deposit belonging to,late Mr.Morris Thompson !!

Attn Please,

Irrespective of the on going imitation of legitimate monetry business transaction,there are still real business opportunities within the globe,i will like you to take not of this,many will or might have contacted you in this mode,but try to discern the right from the left.I do receive messages like this in my mail box at least twice every week, i wonder where those constructive text arises from.Try to visit the websites below first and foremost before responding to this life changing business proposal.

I am Mr.Tony Mensah,and works with a Security and Finance house Equitorial Security Sarl "E.S.S.L.T", here in Lome Togo as the manager auditing and foreign bills section of international banking services including deposits trust and company management,a subsidiary of Ecowas Monetry Union (E.M.U.) with head office in Lome Togo. i am contacting you in confidence believing that you are matured in business and can keep confidentiality of this transaction untill a successful line is drawn.

However is not mandatory nor will i in any manner compel you to honour against your will,here in this company existed a deposit for the past 6 years with A/C No:ECB2446983652 which belongs to an American national who is now late Mr Morris Thompson who died on 4th February 2000 on board with Alaska Airlines Flight 261.http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
http://www.morristhompsoncenter.org/morrisThompson.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/thom02.shtml

When I discovered that non of his relatives came for this deposit, I decided to carry out a system investigation and discovered that non of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware of this deposit. This is the story in a nutshell.

Now I want someone from overseas who will be presented to the company as the bonafide next of kin so that this fund will be transfered on his name,thereafter,I had planned to destroy all related documents for this deposit. It is a careful network and for the past eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation. The deposit is intact and stands at-(US$14.5M) fourteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars,what is needed now is foreigner then i will furnish you with related information to back-up this claim successfully.

Now my questions are:-
1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can handle this transfer with me.

Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein be accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it deserves.

Please for our subsiquent communication and contacts kindly send me the following when replying :

Your private telephone and fax numbers
Contact address
Your full names

You shall also open an empty/blank Bank account which shall have no money on it to avoid conflict between I and you and to prove my utmost honesty and sincerity,this is where this fund shall be transfered into before disbursment and sharing between both of us.

I expect your urgent response if you can handle this project,send me an email for confirmation.

Respectfully yours,

Mr.Tony Mensah.



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