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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:
  • "you will take 25%" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • mrsf_12donna@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS FRANCA DONNA" <francadonna@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: mrsf_12donna@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:52:29 +0200
Subject: Hello My Dear


Hello My Dear

How are you today and your family? I do believe that Allah is really in
control.Please, I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Franca Donna,of
Repulic of Benin,widow to Late Alhaji Usman Donna(for Consular ofthe benin,I
have been recently been daignosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing
from my sick bed.

Please consider the transaction on it's content and not the fact that you
have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact
information because thereare many such possibilities these days.I decided to
do this after praying over the situation.There is this US$10.5Million my
husband has in an account with a Bank here in Benin Republic of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have
no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the
right of next of kin.

This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund
to his/her bank account. This is on the condition that you will take 25%of
the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use the
remaining 70% for the less previlege people in the society. This is in
fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the
fund be used to carter for the less previleged Madrassas and also to
orphangess expecially to children who will become Hafiz_e_Quraan.

If this conditionis acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names and contact information so that I will submit your name
to the bank as the beneficiary and also send the authorization that will
give you the right of next of kin to the account in the bank. I will also
give you a text of the application you are to send to the bank. I cannot
predict what will be my faith by the time the fund will be transfered into
your account,but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have
described above.your reply should be sent throug this.

I look forward to your response.Allah Hafiz
Sincerely,

Mrs.Franca Donna

Please Contact With email mrsf_12donna@yahoo.fr

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