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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: "USMAN BELLO" <usman.b@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: usmanprivate2000@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:53:35 +0100
Subject: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS UNIT
ECO BANK OF TOGO
ECO BANK HOUSE,LOME TOGO.


Dear

I am Mr. Usman Bello. a staff of bills and exchange at the foreign
remittance Department, of Eco Bank Of Togo plc. I am writing following the
impressive information about you from our chambers of commerce and
industry.In my department, we discovered an abandoned the sum of (US$ 12.5m)
TWELVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS only, in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his
entire family in a plane crash.
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 applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately we learn that his supposed next of kin or relations died along
with him at the crash leaving nobody behind! for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I and other officials in the department now decided
to make business with you, that is, to release the money to you as the next
of kin or relation to the decease since nobody is fronting for the money and
we do not want this fund to go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after two years the money will be transferred into federal
government account as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indigene can not stand as
a next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for
you as the foreign partner and 10% for expenses incurred during the cost of
remittance. Therefore to enable immediate transfer of the fund to you as
arranged, you should contact me with my private e-mail adress immediately
for further briefing:

I look forward to hearing from you soon.Include your phone and fax numbers
when repling


Best regards.

Mr. Usman Bello
Foreign Remittance

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