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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)
• 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.
  • mrsmercy.jumbo@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mercy jumbo <mercy.jumbo@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mrsmercy.jumbo@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:29:52 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL




Dear Friend.

Warmest greetings to you,I know  this letter will definitely come to you as a suprise.I am Mrs Mercy jumbo.the Auditor General in African Development Bank
Republic Du Benin Branch.
 
During the course of our auditing I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in the bank in 1999 and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again.After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] So I am soliciting for your assitance to present you as the next of kin to the decease hence he does not have some one as his next of kin to inherit the funds,

Therefore if you are interested to work with me, urgently get back to me so that I will give you more informations and how the funds shall be successfuly transfer to you by the bank. The amount in this account is  ( Six Million, Three hundred and Fifty- Two Thousand US Dollars) $USD6.352M.
 
I look forward to your reply soonest,
 
my private email address below  mrsmercy.jumbo@yahoo.fr

 
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Mercy.jumbo

 


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