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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:17:50 +0100
Subject: I look forward to your immediate response.


Attn Dear:=20
=C2=A0
Permit me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humani=
tarians work. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You =
should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact th=
at you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your c=
ontact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I=
would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Esther Baraba,of Republic of Beni=
n,widow to Late Dr. Thomas Baraba (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy i=
n Madrid, Spain. I have been recently diagnose of Cancer of the Pelvics. =
I am writing to you now from my sick bed here in the hospital.
=C2=A0
There is=C2=A0 $8.5M=C2=A0 (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand united st=
ate dollars) my husband has in an account with the CONTINENTAL BANK BENIN=
of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my h=
usband and I have no child,I decide to contact you so that I will pass th=
e right of next of kin to you. You will apply to the bank and request for=
the transfering of the fund to your own bank account.
=C2=A0
This is on the condition that you will take only 25% of the fund/money fo=
r yourself,5% for any expenses, while you will use the remaining 70% for =
the less privileges people in the society.=C2=A0 This is in fulfillment o=
f the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of the fun=
d be used to carter for the less privilege people, If this condition is a=
cceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names =
and contact information's so that i will have the trust to pass the right=
of next of kin to you. So as soon as i receive your full names with your=
full address i will proceed to send you all the documents covering the f=
und which you will send to the bank for the release of the fund to your a=
ccount.
=C2=A0
I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transf=
erred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is us=
ed as i have described above.
=C2=A0
I look forward to your immediate response.
=C2=A0
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Esther Baraba. Please reply to this email: esther.baraba@live.fr

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