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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • kevin.thamos_1111@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kevinthamos1@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:23:11 +0100
Subject: Dear Trusting Friend,


From Mr Kevin Thamos,
the Director of ,
Operation with Continental
Bank Plc Cotonou, Benin Republic. ATTN: Dear Trusting Friend, I pray
that this email reaches you this day in the best of health. In this good
year, I present my best wishes to you and your family with blessings,
goodness and mercies.
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to
the fact that we have not yet met. The message could be strange but
it\'s real if you pay some attention to it. I want to notify you about
it at least for the sake of your integrity. In a brief introduction, I
am Mr.Kevin Thamos, the Director of Operation with Continental Bank
Cotonou, Benin Republic. I have a very interesting transaction to
discuss with you. The business under discussion has to do with Daniel
W.Douglas a nationality of your country, who is a Consultant/ contractor
with Societe Nationale Des Products D\' Agricole (SONAPRA) Company in
Benin-Cotonou. I managed to get your contact details through the
Internet search myself because time is of importance to it and I am
desperately looking for a person being a foerigner like you to assist me
to pull this money out from the bank before our corrupt government
officials will confiscate the money. On Thursday, December 25,
2003,Daniel W.Douglas, his wife and their only daughter were involved in
Air-Crash near the Atlantic Ocean in Cotonou suburb. For more
clarifications, you can visit the CNN web news for the
tragedy.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash Or
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3350455.stm. Since then I have made
several inquiries to your Embassy in a bid to locate any relation of
Daniel W.Douglas . All attempts to reach the next of kin of Daniel
W.Douglas has been futile as He had no family here in Benin Republic.
Hence my decision to contact you. I want you and I to go into
partnership, the nature of your business is completely irrelevant to
this transaction as all I need from you is an assurance that my interest
will be fully protected once this transaction is concluded. Daniel
W.Douglas made a numbered time (fixed) deposited for twelve calendar and
his account with our Bank accrues to about (Four Million, Three hundred
and Fifty- Two Thousand US Dollars) $USD4.352M.
According to the Benin
Law, at the expiration of (Three years and Nine months) being this month
end, the money will revert to the ownership of the Benin government if
nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently, my proposal is that I
will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Daniel
W.Douglas so that the fruits of this old man\'s labour will not get
into the hands of some corrupt government officials who will latter use
the money to sponsor war in Africa and kill innocent citizens in the
search for political power/seat.

Please note that, there will be no
problem at all, my position as the Director of Operation guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction within 7 Banking days and the
money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 40%
for you and 60% for me.
This is very simple, I will like you to reply
immediately so that I can send you the Text of application which you
will fill and apply to the bank as the next of kin to Daniel W.Douglas
and I will use my good position in the bank as the Director of Operation
to make sure that the application is approved, during board meeting for
immediate payment. If you are interested, reply immediately so that we
can proceed at once. Please also send to me your private phone, or
mobile numbers for easier correspondence. Hoping to hear from you
through my alternative mail: kevin.thamos_1111@yahoo.fr I look forward
to hearing from you soonest. Best Regards. Kevin
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