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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:
  • "the consignment" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • asiyahahmed62@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "asiyah ahmed" <asiyahahmed@gala.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:21:08 +0200
Subject: CAREFULLY GO THROUGH THE DONATION FROM MRS ASIYAH AHMMED


** *Dearest 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 of search
through commerce records. *
* *
*I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Asiyah Ahmmed, of Repulic of Benin,
widow to Late Mr.usman Ahmmed(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 in a CHINESE HOSPITAL here in Benin
Republic.The consignment (contains US$18.5Million cash, in US$100 bills) my
husband deposited with a security company, here in Cotonou,Republic of Benin
of which I am the 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. This person will apply to the company
and request, from them, their procedure towards retrieving the consignment
from them.*
**
*This is on the condition that you will take 35% of the fund for yourself,
5% used 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 motherless babies home etc.*
**
*If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names and contact information so that I will send you
contacte of my lawyer who will help you and i have handed over all the
documents that the company gave to my husband when the consignment was
deposited to him. then he will direct you on how to contact the company
directly, and demand from them the procedure towards retrieving the
consignment from their company.*
**
*I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time you wll recieve the fund,
but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described
above. I look forward to your response.*
**
*contact me through my private E_mail (asiyahahmed62@yahoo.com) And also
attach to me in your reply mail your personal details for familiarity,May
the Good Lord bless you.*
**
*1.Your Full Names
2.Your Age/ Sex
3.Your Marital Status
4.Your Occupation
5.Your Mobile Numbers/Fax
6.Your International Passport/Working ID/Driving License.*
**
*Best Regards*
*
Mrs.Asiyah Ahmmed.
*
*
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