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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:
  • "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united state 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)
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • financialbankbj@mail.md (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: billsmith08@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:20:57 +0200
Subject: CONFIRM TO US IF SHE IS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE


CONFIRM TO US IF SHE IS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

Attn: Sir/Madam,

Your Over Due Inheritance Fund;
This is
to notify you that your over due inheritance funds has been gazetted to
be paid, via key telex transfer (KTT )-direct wire transfer to you since
March 5TH, 2008. Meanwhile, a United States of American citizen
(MRS.WHITE MOORE) visited this office on 2nd April 2008 with a letter of
application, claiming to be your true representative. She gave us this
below information as where your funds will be transferred:
Bank Name:
Citi Bank
Account number: 3800423483,
City: Chicago; USA.
Beneficiary
Name: MRS.WHITE MOORE
Please, do reconfirm to this office, as matter of
urgency if this woman is from you so that this department will not be
held responsible for paying into wrong hand/account. This office
monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and financial
institutions in Benin Republic concerned with foreign contract payments
executed within the country. And I am the final signatory to any
transfer or remittance of huge funds moving within banks both on the
local and international levels in line to foreign contracts settlement.

The Governor central Bank has instructed this department to see the
immediate transfer of this $18m (Eighten Million United State Dollars)
as part payment of your fund into your bank account without delay. We
understand from our findings that you have been going through hard ways
by paying a lot of charges to see to the release of your fund, which has
been the handiwork of some miscreant elements from this country, we
advice that you stop further communication with any correspondence from
anybody or office, if you really want to get your fund and will not
loose any more money.
Finally, you are advice to re-confirm to this
office your receiving bank account, where you want your fund to be
remitted. And your direct Mobile telephone and fax number.
Further
delay, we shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said
MRS.WHITE MOORE, if we do not hear from you within the next seven
working days from today.
Contact DR.STANLLY TUMA for your payment
information via this E-mail :financialbankbj@mail.md ,or
financialtrustbj@live.fr
Waiting for your urgent mail.
Sincerely
Your\'s
Bill Smith

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