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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:
  • "cheques " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• 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.
  • +22993810112 (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.
  • agentfile_office1@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: "KENNEDY JOHN" <kennedy_johfile1@ig.com.br>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:26:43 +0100
Subject: 06 / 04 / 2008 .YOUR FUND IS READY TO BE TRANSFER


From: West African
Monitoring Institution (WAMI).
Tele/Fax : 00229 938 101 12

Value Attention.

I resumed duty recently as policy harmonization chairman on public debt a
committee set up by West African Monitoring Institution (WAMI) under the
able presidency . My office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks
and financial institutions here in Africa that is to tell you that I am
committed to upholding and defending the constitution and laws of West
African Monitoring Institution as well as achieving a higher level of public
safety and security through the prosecution of criminals in the state.

The purpose of the committee among other is to investigate, verify and
settle all outstanding total pending payment owned and Records before me
have revealed that your payment has not been effected as a result of
official negligence as your fund has been identified either as ghost file,
unclaimed deposits, and over-invoiced sum etc; this is due to many
abnormalities had happened in the institutions where some top official of
the apex Banks are interested in your payment and they collaborate with
impostors who are carrying a fake portfolios with levies misled and
misguided about the position of your fund and having the opportunity to
extort money from you that made it too longer up till date that explains why
you receive different kinds of untrue emails and phone call from different
people everyday.

so, be inform that we have concluded all the necessary arrangement towards
the release of your payment but due to the prevailing situation worldwide on
cash movement and transfer of hug sum of money, your payment has since being
deposited with our (OFF-SHORE PAYMENT CENTRE) AFFILIATED TO WORLD
ASSOCIATIONS OF DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICES BANK OF AMERICA .

Base on the information we received from our paying office today, as the
truthfully beneficiary of this payment. you are responsible to pay $145 for
your NON IMMIGRANT TRANSIT TAX as the authorities demand which we described
as selective payment to enable the programming of the information in the
micro chip compartment which will comply with bank of America to effect the
transfer of your fund exactly on the particular date or period (24 hours)
specified in the transfer script text for the fund to be made available to
you any way you wish to receive it.

Please reconfirm your name, address and telephone to this E-mail: (
agentfile_office1@yahoo.es ), so that we can advice you on how to send the
money across to enable us finalise this transfer this week.Your payment
shall be made as soon as this information needed from you is submitted
through our paying office by wire transfer or by a certify bank bond America
Express Cheques all the transfer charges will be deducted from your total
sum as long as you send the $145 for the programming of the information .

The consequences of not adhering to this warning would be yours.Considering
the circumstances at hand, you are advice not to accept any E-mail or
telephone calls that does not come from this office in regards to your
payment this is to forestall new effort towards a diversion of your payment.

Accept our congratulations in advance.

Best regards,


Gen.Yussuf Amino Guei

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