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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: mrskabila22@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:05:39 -0800
Subject: I Need Your Assistance

Dear Sir/Madam,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known
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.Kabila Ali,of Repulic of Benin,widow
to Late Mr.Kabila Usman Ali(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$12.5M(Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousad United State
Dollars) my husband has in an account with the AFRICAN DAVELOPMENT 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 right 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 only 30% of the fund for yourself,
10% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 60% 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 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.

I look forward to your response.

Yours,
Mrs. Kabila.


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