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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • gatoyeobouna11@yahoo.com.mx (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: gt_yeobounachambers@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:27:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: INHERITANCE PAYMENT









From ZENITH BANK ATMs
DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY ATMs
RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
From: Gato Yeobouna 
Remittance Manager
ZENITH BANK,TOGO
Email: gatoyeobouna11@yahoo.com.mx
Phone Number: 00228 976 88 21

Attention: Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contact inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract /inheritance payment.

Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. After the board meeting held at our headquarters,we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know,we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe,America and Asia Pacific, which is then instruction given by our president FAURE GNASSINGBE, (GCFR) Federal Republic of TOGO.
 
This FIRM will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an A.T.M MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($5,000..00) Five Thousand Us Dollars per transaction.So,if you like to receive your fund
this way, $5,000usd for you to withdraw for a day and each transaction is $2,000usd minimum which you have to withdraw $5,000 usd for one working day also be informed that the total amount in the SWIFT ATM CARD is $1.8 million usd.

(1) Your Full Name :
(2) Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD:
(3) Phone And Fax Number :
(4) Age and Occupation :
(5) Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:

We shall be expecting to receive your information,you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office. On this regards,do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction,and also please do update me with any new development.
 
Thanks for your co-operation
 
Gato Yeobouna 



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