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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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • mrsrosephilip1@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrsrose philip" <mrsrosephilip2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:28 +0200
Subject: Good Day.


Attn:

NB.Pls reply me at (mrsrosephilip1@yahoo.com.br).

Dear Friend,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know
before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should
please consider the transaction on its 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 there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Rose Philip of Repulic of
Benin,widow to Late Mr.Philip Johnson (for Consular of the Benin Embassy in
Madrid, Spain.I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics.
I am writing from my sick bed with my lab top computer.

Here is a total sum of $5.5M (FIVE Million Five Hundred Thousad United
State Dollars),my husband has in an account with the AFRICAN DAVELOPMENT
BANK, Benin .

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.

You will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund to
his/her bank account or you can choose to work with our family lawyer who
will help you along till the fund cleared to your account.

Pls take note of the condition on the percentage that you will take only 30%
of the fund for ourself,10% is mapped out for expenses, while you will use
the remaining 60% 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. If this
condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your
full names and contact informations so that I will ask our family lawyer to
prepare 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 fate 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.

Yours Sister in Christ,
Mrs.Rose Philip.
NB.Pls reply me at (mrsrosephilip1@yahoo.com.br).

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