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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: "George Irabo" <georgeirabo@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:00:00 +0000
Subject: Urgent answer

From the desk of Dr. George Irabo
Director Foreign Operation
Bank International of Africa
LOME-TOGO.

Dear Sir,
I am Dr.George Irabo director of foreign operation of Bank International of
Africa LOME-TOGO.
I believe you are capable and reliable to champion this business
opportunity. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $30m. U.S.A
dollars in account number BIA 15-255-2008 that belong to one of our customer
an consultancy who died along with his entire family in Ivory Coast
political crisis 2002.
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 apply for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately we leant that all his supposed next of kin
died along with him at the accident.
Leaving nobody behind for the claim I now decided to make business with you
and released the money to you as the next of kin of the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want
this money to go into government account, as UNCLAIMED BILL.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained
unclaimed, the money will be transferred into government account as
unclaimed fund.
That is why I want you to front you claiming this money. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a TOGOLAIS cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.
I agree to give you 40% of this money while 60 % is for me and my colleague.
You must apply first to the bank as a next of kin of the deceased which I
will send to you the text of the application as soon as I receive your
reply.
Hope you will not betray me when this money gets into your bank account
before coming to your country with my family to invest my own share.
Please always keep it confidential kindly indicate your private phone and
fax number for easy communication, trusting to hear from you.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr George Irabo
Director Foreign Operations BIA TOGO

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