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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "joycess1 Gazeta.pl" <joycess1@gazeta.pl>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:04:39 +0100
Subject: From Mrs.Joyce Waiting for Urgent Response!!


>From Mrs.Joyce Waiting for Urgent Response!!

Dear Sir/Madam

Good day and Compliments, I am writing this letter in confidence believing
that this mail finds you in an excellent condition of health.I crave your
indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known before but I
believe I have been destined to be of blessing to you and the less
privileged.I am Mrs.Joyce Esien, director of Benin Cement Company and widow
to former Benin counselor in Madrid Spain Mr.Priye Esien.

I am presently in a hospital where I am under going treatment for I have
been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvics as I've been told that
I have not much time to live.There is this fund ( $19.7M ) Nineteen
million,seven hundred thousand united states of America dollars which my
late husband deposited with a finance and security firm here in Cotonou,
Republic of Benin which I happen to be the sole 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
to the said amount ( $19.7M ) Nineteen million,seven hundred thousand
united states of America Dollars.

On the condition that you will take 30% of the fund for yourself, while you
will use the remaining 70% for the less privilege people in the society.
This is in fulfillment of the last request of my husband that a substantial
part of the fund be used to carter for the less privileged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately as
I will be grateful if you could disclose your private telephone numbers in
your reply for easy communication through my private email address: (
mrs2joyce@live.co.uk ) for more details.I cannot predict what will be my
fate by the time you Will receive the fund, but you should please ensure
that the fund is used as I have described above. I rest my words here as I
look forward to your urgent and kind response.

Best Regards,

Mrs.Joyce Esien

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