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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)
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2289230383 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Fitz Duke <fitzduke04@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: fitzduke@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:24:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT!


From Mr Fitz Duke
Accounts Facilities Management Department
Banque Atlantique Dapaong
Private Telephone:+228 923 03 83

Dear Friend

I am the above referenced person ,i will want to bring this brief notice to your knowledge,seeking your unbiased cooperation in a partnership that will be of immensed mutual benefits for both of us upon concluding.

I hereby intimate you about records of unclaimed fund of total sum $9.2 million (Nine Million,Two Hundred Thousand USD ) that i discovered during one of my routine checks and record updates in my department which belonged to a rich industralist/researcher (Mr K. ) who passed away on the 25th December 2003 through a horrible plane crash..During this routine data updating, i discovered that there was no records of next of kin or heir mentioned in the ICP data folders of this bank account,hence why i have contacted you .the successful execution of this covenant.See more infos, log on to
(http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

My bank’s internal policy as it relate to unclaimed foreign dormant accounts requires that after a period of 650 days of non running of such bank account, it will be declared unservisable and thereafter gets confiscated by the board of directors & trustees.

I hereby wish to present you to this claim as the next of kin inorder to avoid such negative result .So,upon your positive response to this covenant, i will give you more guidance to the release and transfer of this fund to your choosen bank account,which will include the sharing paterns with all other required legal financial modalities to the repartriation of this fund.

Kindly send your quick response through my alternative email address.
You can also call with my indicated private telephone for more oral clarifications.

I am waiting for your immediate and positive
response to this call.

Yours sincerely,
From Mr.Fitz Duke
Accounts Facilities Management Department
Banque Atlantique Dapaong
Private Telephone:+228 923 03 83

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