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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: fatima_222@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:32:54 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS?=

Dear,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from
somebody you have not know before. I decided to do
this after praying over the situation. You should
please consider the transaction on its content and not
the fact that you have not known me before. I nee
d not dwell on how I came by your contact information
because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Fatima Ali,
of Repulic of Benin, widow to Late Mr. Usman Ali
(fomer Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid,
Spain). I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer
of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed.

There is this US$9.8Million my husband has in an
account with the Financial Bank, Benin of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because
my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a
credible person to whom I will pass the righ
t of next of kin. This person will apply to the bank
and request for the transfer of the fund to his/her
bank account.

This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the
fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you
will use the remaining 70% for the less previlege
people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the
last request of my husband: that a substantial
part of the fund be used to carter for the less
previleged,also to donate for the relief of Tsunami
Survivors
If this condition is acceptable to you, you should
contact me immediately with your full names and
contact information so that I will ask our family
lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give you
the right of next of kin to the account in the bank. I
will also give you a text of the application you are
to send to the bank.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the
fund will be transfered into your account, but you
should please ensure that the fund is used as i have
described above.
For security reasons,please reply to my second email
address:mrs_fatima_444@yahoo.com I look forward to your
response.

Yours,

Mrs. Fatima Ali




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