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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)
  • "million united states 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • basileamoussoubj@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Message File" <msg_file11@ig.com.br>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:18:11 +0200
Subject: Treat As Confidential,


Dear Friend,

* (TRANSFER OF
US$14,000,000)*

Please do not be surpprise the way i got your contact. It is obvious that
this proposal will come to you as a suprise. This is because we have not
meet before but i am inspired to send you this email by the huge fund
transfer opportunity that will be of mutual benefit to both of us.First Let
me start by introducing myself roperly to you.I am BASILE AMOUSSOU ,Credit
officer TRUST FINACIAL COMPANY here in cotonou.I beleive that you will not
betrayed me at last with the trust i intend putting on you now.

THE PRE-POSITION

A foreigner,a Libyian,Late Engr.MAHMUD ALI IBRAHIM (snr)An iron steel
company chairman with the Federal Government here in Benin untill his death
some years ago in a plain crash and he Deposited with us some amount of
money worth US$14,000,000(Fourteen million United States Dollars),the
company now expects a next of kin as beneficiary of this money and Valuable
efforts are being made by TRUST FINACIAL COMPANY to get in touch with any of
the MAHMUD ALI'S family or relatives but to no avail. It is because of the
erceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr MAHMUD ALI
IBRAHIM (snr)'s next of kin (he had no wife or children that is known to
us).The management under the influence of our chairman and members of the
board of directors,have made arrangements for the fund to be declared
"Unclaimed"and subsequently be used to import amunations into our country.

However,In order to avert this negative development,some of my trusted
colleagues and I,now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin
to late Engr MAHMUD ALI IBRAHIM (snr) so that the fund US$14,000,000 will
be released and transfered into your account as the beneficiary. All
documents and proofs to enable you get this fund has been carefully worked
out.We have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
the deceased beneficiaries, and more so, we are assuring you that this
business is 100% risk free envolvement. Your share remains while the rest
will be for myself and my colleagues for investment purposes anywhere
according to agreement between we and your goodself.

So as soon as we receive an acknowledgement of the receipt of this our
mutual business proposal from you,we would furnish you with the necessary
disbursement ratio to suite both parties.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not hasitate to contact me through
my private e-mail : basileamoussoubj@hotmail.fr
Looking forward to your urgent response.

*Best regards,
BASILE AMOUSSOU.
*

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