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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "escrow account with no beneficiary" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "headquater" (this email uses bad English)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "there are practically no risks involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +22998596832 (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.
  • drlemyq@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Lemmy Steed <proffesor.aa@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:50:00 -0300 (ART)
Subject: PLEASE READ & REPLY URGENTLY


PLEASE READ & REPLY URGENTLY
From: Dr. Lemmy Steed,
Operations Manager
Continental Bank Benin.
E-mail: drlemyq@yahoo.de
Tel: +229 98 59 68 32

Dear Friend,Please in the name of God i ask for your little time to read this message carefully to the excellency of our mutual benefit.. This is not one of those letters or stories out there that everybody know as joke. I am very serious and this money is my only hope of survival now and it is the future of my family. So please read this email very gently and quietly tell me what you think, if we can transact it together or not. And please after reading if it does not interest you kindly delete the mail and keep the secret of what you red within you.

My name is Dr. Lemmy Steed, i am the operations manager of Continental Bank Benin, Cotonou headquaters Republic of Benin. I got your contact online as was searching for an oversea partner to confid in and do business with. I write you this proposal in good faith, I am 52 years old, an Ethiopian based in Benin Republic, married with four children.

I have a very important business which i would like to execute with you, it involves some reasonable amount of cash. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me, as the OPS manager in this bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my headoffice in Potonovo at the end of each business year. On the course of last year business report, I discovered that we made surplus cash of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds (10.5,000,000.00)GBPS) which my head office and no single staff is aware of and will never be aware of since i have wisely arranged and blinded the file. I placed the fund on what we call escrow account with no beneficiary, so that anybody that apply claim as the owner will easily convince the management and the money will be released and transferred into the person's account.

As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, So my aim of contacting you is for you to pose as the owner of the Aforementioned fund and ask our bank to transfer it to your bank account in your country, and you will get entittled to 30% of the total fund as your commission. There are practically no risks involved i am here to help to monitor the arrangement secretely, it will be a bank-to-bank wire transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer of the monry to any bank account that you will designate.

If you accept to work with me I would appreciate it kindly. Get back to me immediately so that we can go over the details and i will give you my full informations and relay to you more information on the money and explain to you how we should start the claim. Remember there is no risk involved i promise.
Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.

Yours truly
DR. LEMMY STEED
Operations Manager
Continental Bank Benin
E-mail: drlemyq@yahoo.de




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