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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: "JELINGO MOBUTU" <realman@luxmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:05:44 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE TRANSACTION

Dear Sir,

I am the offshore Clearing House head of the Central Bank of Senegal,
West Africa based in the Republic of Benin. I am writing to you to
request yourhand in prosecuting a certain business that dates back to
1997.There was this Swedish Contractor,Mr Peter Pam who was awarded the contract of refurbishing the presidential villa and the senate quaters in senegal.
This contract valued at $23M (twenty three Milion dollars) with Contract number:CBS/94/PIOPS has since been executed and only $5m(Five million dollars)has been paid to him as upfront/initial payment remaining $18m dollars to be paid to him, but due the political
instabilityin the country for some times now , the payment was not
immediately effected until recently.Unfortunately, now that the payment
has been finally approved and endorsed by the Central Bank Governor of
senegal,we discovered that the beneficiary to this fund Mr. Peter Pam has died since August 1999 leaving no information about any next of kin because his wife died earlier in 1996.Since I am supposed to make the payment through the offshore Clearing Office here in the Republic Of Benin under category'A'special, I have decided to approach you to stand in as the next of kin to Mr Peter pam, I shall arrange to change all the necessary documents here to enable you receive the money in your nominated foreign account which you will have to immediately make available if you are interested in this deal.
I have agreed that i will give you for your efforts in the transaction
30% and i and my colleugues in the bank will share 65% while The
remaining 5% will be deducted to cover all expenses made in the course of the transaction.This thing is highly confidential as a result of my still in service in the Bank and i hereby assure you that this is 100% risk free as i am going to furnish you with every neccessary informations needed for us to acomplish this mutual transaction. If you are interested, please get back to me immediately,as i will like you to give me your personal contact phones/fax numbers for
the easy and more serious discussion.Expecting to hearing from you urgently.
regards
yours Sincerely,

Mr JELINGO MOBUTU

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