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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +22993232609 (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.
  • drgeorgeolekamma@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.George Olekamma" <olekammageorge1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:55:02 +0100
Subject: Thanks for your understanding.


Dearest one in mind,

Top of the morning to you,hope great?Please Iwant tointroduce myself to you
My name is
Dr.George Olekamma bank accountant in one of the bank known as Continental
Bank Of Cotonou herein Republicof benin,I wish to know if we can work
together.I would like you to stand as the next of kin to my deceased
customer named Mr.Robert Gregory,who made a deposit of $16 million (Sixteen
Million United States Dollars) with our bank.

He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an
open beneficiary mandate. If you are interested please do let me know so
that I can give you comprehensivedetails on what we are to do .

My position in the bank here exposesme to know more and have access as well
as making decisions and judicial report on dominant funds,deposits and
account from deceased customer's that did not include their next of kins
in their account opening statutory documents, as some of this business
magnets andgiants come from farAsia and America, North America etc dont want
their government to jusitfytheir reasources they come here to hide their
estates in cash in our bank and they sometime die accidently without making
declarations of such deposits to their partner's and families and as a
result it is only me that can make customary judicial report that such
deposit,account or funds is dorminant before we redirect it to the
government as a matured unclaimed dividend and it becomes government money
and in return we recieve only promotion in paper. So I am just tired and
will not die poorlosing such God sent opportunites hence i make this
proposition to you.


I am a very busy man and wish to have this fund transfered and invest under
your custody after which you will be entitle to 30% of the whole sum.

Call me urgently on +229 93 23 26 09. or reply through my regular email:*
drgeorgeolekamma@safe-mail.net*

Keep all confidential and secret please.

Thanks for your understanding,

Dr.George Olekamma.

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