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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. johnson" <mr_johnson1961@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:39:05 +0000
Subject: Dear....this is Urgent pls reply back to me

C.D.B.T. house 155/161broad street
P.o box 2463 lome togo
Telephone;228-920-59-32
or/ 228-901-79-01

I am Mr.JOHNSON.

Dear....this is Urgent

I wish this my email message will not come to you as a surprise as we do not
know ourself before.I only got your contact from our chambers of commerce
research.With trust that you will not let me down in this.There is an
account open in our BANK in 1998 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this
account again.

After going through some old files I discovered that the owner of this
account is a forigner. Mr.S.N.Benton. who was among the victims of CAR
ACCIDENT alond AFLAO ACCRA RD. in 1999 .But since then we have not had any
body coming for the claims as the next of kin,and hence nobody has showed up
as the next of kin for the past years, I have removed the file to my private
vault. As well that this BANK does not know anything about this account.I
contact you as the next of kin. To provide a personal / bank account where
this amount(US$10.5million) can be transferred.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to anybody here in TOGO because the owner of this MONEY was a
foreirner so please reply urgently if you are interested to help me out of
this, please send your TELEPHONE and FAX contacts for easy
communication.Please be informed that every other arrangement will be
concluded by me and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me move the
fund to his account. This does not have any risk attached to it as all the
internal documentations will be handled by me.
I therefore request you to confirm your interest by replying this message
urgently

I look forward to hear from you.

Best Regards

Mr.JOHNSON.

C.D.B.T. house 155/161broad street
P.o box 2463 lome togo
Telephone;228-920-59-32
or/ 228-901-79-01
email; mr_johnson1961@yahoo.co.uk

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