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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Chris Akakpo" <chrisakakpo@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrchrisakakpo@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:39:21 +0000
Subject: Urgent Please!


Dear Friend,

This is an official legal notice for an unclaimed fund left by one of this
companies' deceased clients ( name witheld) , who died in a plane crash
here in Togo on the 25th December 2003.

I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting unit of Continental
Bank of Togo. I discovered the sum of $19.5 Million left in the deceased
account and the fund has been lying in as a suspense account,since no one
has come up for claim.

I hereby solicit for your immediate response and positive committed efforts
to facilitate for the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard
this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer
is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.
Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may
not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be
hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I
make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I
cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control
of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy
my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with
my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity
to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project
and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the
only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my
bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has
blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in
my life. Lets
share the blessing

Upon your positive response to this covenant, I will make all necessary
information known to you, as I attached here the website of the incident,

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html.

Kindly get in touch with me through my email address or you call me on my
phone number stated below for more guidelines to the repatriation of this
fund.

Yours Sincerely
Mr Chris Akakpo

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