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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Balarabe Zamani" <balazamani23@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: balabezamani22@indiatimes.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:53:22 +0800
Subject: IN GOOD FAITH

ECOWAS BANK LIMITED.
Add: 22 rue du la mission
B.P 2341 Lome Togo.
West- Africa.

Good Day,
My name is Mr. Balarabe Zamani, the Manager, credit and foreign bills of ECOWAS BANK LIMITED Lome Togo .I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my bank with account number D14-A55-096/utb/t who perished in a
plane crash[Ethiopian airline 961] with the whole passengers aboard.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of usd.28.5 m, [twenty-eight million five hundredthousand united states dollars] which has been with my branch for a very
long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the nextof kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics
here does not allow such money to stay more than Eight years, because moneywill be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period. In
view of this I got your contact through a search on the internet .I shallgive you 40% of the total sum .

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free andthatyou should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfercan be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as arelation to the
deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail signifying Yourdecision including your privatetel/ fax numebrs for quick communication.

Respectfully submitted,

MR.Balarabe Zamani
Manager, Credit and Foreign Bills

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