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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: "Frank Ekeh" <frankekeh1954@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: frankekeh@sify.com
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:59:17 +0100
Subject: From Frank Ekeh

FROM MR.FRANK EKEH

DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,CONTINENTAL BANK,COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC

Dear Friend ,

Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am MR.FRANK EKEH,
the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of Continental Bank in
Cotonou-Benin Republic. I and my colleagues deem it fit to contact you regarding
to a transaction that will favour both of us at the end, and i got your contact in my
search for a reputable and reliable person to help me claim the fund in question.

We discovered the sum of sixty five million United States Dollars (USD65M) belonging
to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been lying in a suspence
account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account
owner late Dr. Hamid Ayed from lebanon, who was involved in the December 25th
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website on
cnn = http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will
be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank.
The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the deceased and
respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed up the release and
transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund if not claimed by the end of next
quarter, the government of the Federal Republic of Benin will take over the ownership
of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government
to take over the ownership of this money, that is why I contacted you for us to do the
deal together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased
whose name is Dr. Hamid Ayed.

If you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 30% of the total sum,
while I and my colleagues involved will take 70% of the total sum. Upon your
acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect the transfer within 10
banking working days.

Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra responssibilities
on your part, except the above mentioned roles and normally you will be required
to maintain absolute information and absolute secrecy throughout the duration of
this transaction, because discussing it with a third party might jeopardise the entire
transaction.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting
response on this project as this will greatly enrich both of us at the end. please You
may contact me through my private
email:fraekeh2005@yahoo.com or phone 229 648 321


BEST REGARDS,
MR.FRANK EKEH

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