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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: "mark sossou" <marksossou01@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:18:13 +0000
Subject: From Mr. mark:.................

I am Mr Mark Sossou, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance of Community Bank Cotonou, (CBC) In my Department we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$14M (Fourteen Million US dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family on
25/07/2000 in a plane crash. After waited for over (5) three year without
any positive enquire from anyone in respect of the great German victim of
the FLIGHT AF4590 CRASH include all 109 people on board when the CONCORDE
PLANE crashed into the Hotelissimo on 25/07/2000. [TRAGEDY OF THE GREAT
FAMILY WIPED OUT IN THE CRASH]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm" Great Andreas Schranner
and his wife Maria together with their daughter Andrea Eich all perished in
the concode jet on 25TH JULY, 2000. Sincerely, the above named deceased was
with me personally in 1998 when he opened an account with our bank(CBC) in
Cotonou Benin Republic with the total sum of USD$14M{Fourteen Million US
dollars only}; appointing me as his personal account officer in charge of
credit and foreign bills to his account. Since his death, I have personally
waited/watched with keen interest to identify the next of kin to the
deceased both in BBC and CNN NEWS but all my efforts has proved abortive.
Which means that none of his relation knows about this deposit. Due to the
Authentic and Legality of this particular transaction, You should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized
within 7 to 9 banking days, after you would have apply to the bank as the
only beneficiary of the fund from the deceased. For further information,
contact me via my email address.Remember, our banking ethics here does not
allow such HUGE money to stay more than six years without claim hence the
money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this
long period of domancy. Looking forward for a mutual beneficial and long
lasting partnership. I remain Mr Mark Sossou
*******************************************It is highly confidential to you
only. If, for any reason, you are not capable to handle this REAL and GENUIE
transaction, get to my knowledge and don't disclose it to anyone else Pls.
Contact me on my Alternative email:sossoumark@yahoo.fr

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