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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • unitedwesternpaymentcentre@rocketmail.com
  • ibeganu099@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ibeto Lorar" <ibeganu093@gala.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:43:38 +0100
Subject: Reply


Hi
This mail is comming to you under security company benin republic, with all
respect to you, we had an meeting today and we discovered that you can not
be able to cash the $1.5Millions ATM in your country, we also notecified
that the director of Financial bank is not honestly with you regarding your
ATM US$1.500.000.00 payment arrangement, please note that all the fee they
collected from you is lie fee, the director have scam the fee from you
without knowing by the bank, and we are here to inform you to stop any
communicate with them or any company because your funds is not any more with
Financial bank, with security reason we made an arrangement with western
union department and the western union will start sending you your fund par
$10,000.00 in a day payment which will be sending to you by Vital western
union office as we made your payment arrangement with the department to
start remitting the payment to you start from 7th July 2008 untill you
receive the total $1.5Millions Debit ATM.


Try contact Mr Kriss Beeti, his is the western union Accountant Tel 229 9847
0692/ email:......( unitedwesternpaymentcentre@rocketmail.com ) And you try
to contact Ministry of funds in this email------( ibeganu099@gmail.com) do
let then know if anythings involved; and you can keep in touch with us
tomake sure that you receive your payment fast with our respect and honoure.
We adviced the western union account to send you all the payment
certificate, you will start receiveing your payment without delay.

Thanks

Mr Ben Ibekwe.
Commissional of Security Defencement:

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