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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: fatima225@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:05:00 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20look=20forward=20to=20your=20response=2E?=

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 need 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 (for 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 security company in Europe
,of which I am the beneficiary. With my health condition and because my
husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom
will be the beneficiary of fund. This person will contact the security
company and request for the transfer of the fund.

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.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names and contact information so that document and proves
to this fund will forwarded to you to the security company in Europe on
your request.

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.

I look forward to your response.

Yours,

Mrs. Fatima Ali




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