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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 Silas Sankoh" <silassankoh@free.fr>
Reply-To: <silas_sankoh00@zwallet.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:20:29 +1000
Subject: WITH REGARDS


Dearest:Friend
My Name is Mr.Silas Sankoh.a credit officer with the one of the leading
(Finance Trust House) here in Cotonou Republic Du Benin. In my department
i
discovered an abandoned funds (USD 32 M) in an account that belongs to one
of
our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died
along with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since i got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of
kin
to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some
body
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our
banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now
decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you
as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to
go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Six years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury
as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is
occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Indigene
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
Your percentage will be declare to you as soon as you indicate your
interest. I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated

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