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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mrswilfred_lonah@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mrswilfredlonah@freenet.de
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:34:22 +0100
Subject: High Yield Investment (HYI)


Dear Friend,

I wish you a prosperous year to you and your family.in my
search for a reliable and GOD fearing person, and through prayers and
pains taking efforts via search I made on the internet on my hospital
bed side. I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last
wishes. My name is Mrs.Wilfred Lonah, I\'m a 38 years old woman from
Sierra- Leone,I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai,and I
was also married with two children.

I have US$6,325,000.00 (Six Million
Three Hundred &Twenty-Five Thousand United States Dollars) in a
long-term deposit in a financial institution here in Cotonou Benin
Republic West Africa. Presently, I\'m in a hospital where I have been
undergoingtreatment for Oesophagi Cancer at a Hospital in Cotonou.

I
had two children but unfortunately, my husband and my daughter where
involved in a plane crash in the Dec, 25th. I am now left with my only
son Solomon.

Below is the plane crash
Website:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

Note:
The reason why I am contacting you is because I have since lost my
ability to talk fluently and my doctor have told me that anything can
happen during the operation, I want to know if you can arrange for a
better hospital over there in your country so that I can come over for a
better surgery and also to know if you can take care of my son when I
will be undergoing this surgery.

I have decided to give you charge of
my US$6,325,000.00 (Six Million Three Hundred & Twenty-Five Thousand
United States Dollars) deposited with a financial institution so that
you can invest it in a very lucrative business in your country,in case
of any eventuality during the surgery operation, my son will have
someone to take care of him and a business/funds to inherit for a good
future or if this surgery goes well, I will have a business that I can
use to take care of my only son.

Please note that this fund is lying
with a Financial Institution in Benin West Africa and as I am writing
this message to you from my hospital Bed, I am not sure that I will
survive this operation but even if I have to die, first I want to secure
a future for my only son. My problem now is that I am afraid of people,
I don\'t want my son to suffer or
cry as a mother les or a father les
child that is why I am afraid and I want a GOD fearing or Allah person
so that this money will be invested as we planned without delay and who
will take good care of my son.

All I WANT FROM YOU IS TO TAKE THE
MONEY WITH MY SON AND INVEST IT SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF MY SON IF I
DO NOT SURVIVE THIS.I HAVE AGREE TO GIVE YOU 10% OF THE TOTAL
AMOUNT.

Please get back to me very fast so that I can tell you what to
do. May the good God bless you.
You can also get back to me via:
mrswilfred_lonah@yahoo.fr
May God Bless you,

Mrs Wilfed
Lonah.


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