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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +22997473928 (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.
  • wilfredkone07@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "wilfred kone" <wilfred2007@ig.com.br>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:24:39 +0200
Subject:


* From The Desk Of Mr. Wilfred Kone.
Manager Audit and Accounts Department,
African Development Bank Benin (ADB).
Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Date: 26/06/2008.
Re:Inheritance Fund:
* *
Attention My Dear,

It is a pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I make this
contact with you believing that this communication will mark the begining of
a new and lasting relationship between us. I am aware of the fact that my
message will come to you as a suprise, due to the fact that we do not know
each other before. But, I want you to give attention to this letter and read
it with the best of your understanding.

I am Mr.Wilfred Kone, the newly appointed Manager in Audit and Accounts
Department at African Development Bank (ADB). I am contacting you following
the discovery made during our last two years 2006 bank Audit were I
discovered an abandoned (file), sum of money in tone of USD$4.5Million (Four
Million Five Hundred Us Dollars) only lying dormant in the bank without any
deposit, withdrawal or anybody coming for the claim.

This is the third year this fund has been lying dormant here in our bank
according to the previous Audit reports, and according to the bank's rules
and regulations as stipulated, any deposit that stayed more than a period of
5 to 6 years in the bank without claim, will be confiscated and transferred
into the bank's treasury as unclaimed bills.

Furthermore, investigations reveal that this money belongs to a foreign
customer of our bank (MOHD HAJIB KAMAL HAKIM) who was an importer, he died
in a plane crash that happened here in my country COTONOU,BENIN REPUBLIC on
the 25Th of December 2003 while travel ling on a festive visit to his home
country Lebanon when suddenly there aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
immediately after taking off from the Benin International Airport, PLEASE
view the web site below:


www.iafpa.org.uk/news-template.php?t=4&id=1291.*
*

MY PROPOSAL TO YOU.

As the newly appointed Manager in Audit and Accounts Department, I wish to
solicit for your unconditional support and assistance to move this money to
your country by putting up an application to the bank for the transfer of
the total money to your bank account as the business partner, bonafide
beneficiary of the fund and next of kin to the late customer.

Please, this message is not a scam or an illegal transaction because I have
put everything in place and have also acquired all the vital informations
about the late customer of the bank that will be helpful to us to
successfully conclude this transfer. If you are interested and ready to do
this business with me, I am ready to share this money with you at the
percentage ratio of 50:50 with you for providing your bank account, And I
will like us to meet here in Cotonou, Benin Republic for a face to face
discoursion, and for more clarification about the transaction before we can
proceed on the transfer processe.

Please, incase you cannot be able to travel down here to meet me for a face
to face discoursion, and for more clarification about the transaction,
Kindly contact me via my altanative email as stated below or my direct
mobile telephone number as also indicated below for more clarification. But,
If you are not capable or interested to execute this deal with me, Please
ignore and delete this message and also forgive me for disturbing your
peace.

Remain blessed as I wait for your urgent and positive response. This is
absolutly confidential please.

Your's truly,
Mr.Wilfred Kone.
Direct Mobile Number: +229 97 47 39 28.
Reply To:(**wilfredkone07@yahoo.fr*<http://uk.mc271.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wilfredkone07@yahoo.fr>
*).*

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