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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:
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Evans Amadieu <evamadieu0011@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <evamadieu006@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:56:32 +0000
Subject: From Mr Evans / Naresh.



>From Mr Evans AmadieuAuditing & Accounting Departmentof Banque Atlantique,Lome-Togo.Hello Naresh,With great pleasure I am writing this proposal to you and i apologize for any inconvenience it might cause you. However, your email contact was secured through my search in the internet for a reliable and capable hand to handle a transaction of this magnitude and i became aware of your credibility and integrity. Due to the sensitivity of this transaction and my commitment as a banker, i urge for your consent in this great opportunity.I am Mr Evans Amadieu, the head of auditing and accounting section of Banque Atlantique Lome-Togo. We had a foreign customer, physician by profession and an owner of a cadbury manufacturing Company here in Lome Togo.. Eventually,he died on 26th December 2004 in Tsunami that happened in Sumatra island Indonesia while on a vacation, he had deposited a huge sum of $9..5M (Nine million five hundred thousand USD) which no other person knows about because this is a sitaution I have monitored closely with my position in the Bank and having monitored this deposit and yet nobody has showed up as the next of kin since after his death, I have removed his file to my private vault.The request of a foreigner as the next of Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. This is why I have contacted you to render assistance in repatriating the money and properties left behind by this man before they will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by this Bank. With my position in the bank, i am in possession of every information our bank here will need to transfer this fund to you which shows the entire transaction between the deceased and our bank here in relation to this fund deposit.I want this money to be transferred into a safe account abroad after which we will share the proceeds but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here in my country (Togolaise). My constraint is to be able to source a foreign partner who is honest and trustworthy, that will act as a Trustee and willing to assist me in this transaction morally and financially and your share as compensation will be (40%) while (60%) is for me. This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality as it requires. I guarantee you that the entire transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country.My intention of writing you through email is because i believe it is very confidential and personal. Hoping that you will understand and assist effectively for the success of this transaction and looking forward to hearing from you.. Though this approach appears desperate but i can assure you that whatever questions you would need to ask or any other details you will need to know regarding this proposal will be adequately answered to give you on a clearer understanding of it so as to arrive at a successful conclusion. Waiting for your prompt response.Best Regards,Mr Evans Amadieu. NOTE; This message is strictly confidential for the person named above. Please if you have received this message in error, delete and inform the sender immediately.
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