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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: "Dr.Dan Musa." <danmusa170@teenmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:45:02 +0100
Subject: Private.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS UNIT
UNION BANK OF TOGOLEISE UNION
BANK HOUSE,LOME- TOGO.

E-maila Address: (danmusa170@teenmail.co.za)

Dear,

I am Dr.Dan Musa. a staff of bills and exchange at
the foreign remittance Department, of Union Bank Of Togolise
plc. I am writing following the impressive information
about you from our chambers of commerce and industry.In my
department, we discovered an abandoned the sum of (US$ 5m)
FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS only, in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with
his entire family in November 2000 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because we cannot release it unless somebody applies as a
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.

Unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or
relations died along with him at the crash leaving nobody
behind! for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I and other officials in the department now decided to
make business with you, that is, to release the money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the decease since
nobody is fronting for the money and we do not want this
fund to go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill. The
banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after six years the money will be
transferred into federal government account as unclaimed
fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and an indigene can not stand as a next of kin to
a foreigner. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for
you as the foreign partner and 10% for expenses incurred
during the cost of remittance. Therefore to enable
immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged, you
should contact me with my! e-mail adress immediately for
further briefing:(danmusa170@teenmail.co.za)

I look forward to hearing from you soon.Include your phone
and fax numbers when repling

Best regards

Dr.Dan Musa.
Foreign Remittance.

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