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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:
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22993967305 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • oceanic_bk_benin3@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "udo bless" <bless_udo1@mailbox.hu>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 20:16:52 +0200
Subject: CONTACT OCEANIC BANK FOR YOUR ATM CARD URGENTLY


* ATTENTION MY DEAR.

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank
Draft but i didn't heard from you since, then I went and
deposited the Draft with oceanic bank plc here in Cotonou, Benin
Republic, because I travelled to Japan to see my boss and i will not come
back till next month end.

I have arranged with them to make your payment for you with their new ATM
MASTER CARD which you can use to withdraw your money in any ATM MACHINE
around the globe/world. You have to contact the OCEANIC BANK PLC. with your
full
contact informations such as follows:

1. FULL NAME,_______________
2. ADDRESS WERE TO SEND THE ATM CARD,____________
3. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER,______________
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION,____________________
5. ATTACH A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION,______________
6.YOUR COUNTRY____________

However, Kindly contact the below person who is in position to release
your ATM Master CARD.

REV DR, TONY EZE UBA,
DIRECTOR,ATM CARD DEPARTMENT
OCEANIC BANK PLC.
EMAIL:(**oceanic_bk_benin3@hotmail.fr* <oceanic_bk_benin3@hotmail.fr>*)
PHONE NO +229 93 96 73 05,

I had paid for all the processing and delivery charges, the only money
that your are going to pay to them is only $125 Dollars which they will use
to open your ATM Account with the Bank and send the ATM Master CARD
to your address.

Try to contact them as soon as possible to quicken the process of your
Card before your Draft gets Expired.
Let me know as soon as you receive your ATM Master Card.

best regard
MRS,BLESSING UDOKA,




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