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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: markjoe01@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:13:25 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PAY=20ATTENTION=20MY=20DEAR?=



My Dear Friend,

I apologize for the inconvenience if the contents hereunder are contrary
to your moral ethices.But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal.
I am an employee of a continental bank in Cotonou Repulic of Benin and an
Account Officer to a deceased customer of the Bank(Engr.Andrew Kim).

We lost this customer and his family in an auto crash here in Benin some
years back and his accounts of $17.5M, Us dollars (Seventeen Million Five
Hundred thousand US Dollars) with us has been dormant and unclaimed due
to unvailability of a next of kin /relatives to claim his estate.

In accordance with the escheat laws of Benin,the Board of Directors of the
Bank met a forth night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased
over to the Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next
of kin surfacing and if this is done,invarlably the fund will end up to
become Government property and it is as a result of this that I am move
to contact you. in view of this, I am seeking for your co-operation and
good understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enble us claim
the inheritance before the time period given by Bank elapse.

If you are interested and in agreement with me, please write back as soon
as you receive this letter on my private email address: informations_mark@yahoo.com

Be rest assured that it is risk free project and the proceeding will be
share 50% each once the fund are repatriated into your account either in
the United States or elsewhere.

I wait for your prompt respones.
Dr.Mark Joe.



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