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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: "tomas botchway" <tmbotchway2@msn.com>
Reply-To: tmbotchway@sify.com
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:17:12 +0000
Subject: on behalf of Gillchrist Eva and family

Good Day

I am Barrister Tomas Botchway the attorney to Hon . Gillchrist Eva, a former
Minister of Industries, Mines And Power and close confidant of Ex-President
Gnassigbe Eyadema. In October 2004, my client , Hon Gillchrist Eva fell out
of favour with Late President Gnassigbe Eyadema on his continued inablity to
conduct elections and to relinquish power after 38 years as President and
the entire misrule of law in the Republic of Togo.To this end, Gillchrist
Eva and other opposition members were clamped into detention, but by
February 2005, President Eyadema died.There was succession to throne and a
palace Coup happened that enthroned his son , Faure Eyadema as the new
president of Togo.Since the resumption of Faure Eyadema as President Of Togo
the family of Gillchrist Eva and other leading opposition members has been
under restriction of movement and that not withstanding, they are being
molested, policed and the Bank Accounts both in Togo and abroad of
Gillchrist Eva has been frozen by the Togo Government.

Furthermore, the elder son of Gillchrist Eva is in detention
for-more interrogation about his father assets and some vital
documents.Based on the trauma Gillchrist Eva and immediate family is
passing, her wife, Mrs linda Eva mandated me with proof of Deposit
Certificate to contact you in confidence that the husband has the sum of
US$8.2Million Dollars, (Eight Million Two Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only)which was secretly lodged in Suitcases and deposited in a
private Vault Company as materials of Inheritance .

I therefore personally, appeal to you seriously and religiously for
your urgent assistance to move this money into your country where I believe
it will be safe since my client is still in Detention and the wife cannot
leave the country due to the restriction of movement imposed on the members
of the family by the Togolese
Government.If this request appeals to you, please forward to me your
Telephone Number, your fax number and your full names and adress to enable
us send to you the Certificate of Deposit and other relevant documents, that
can help you to claim the trunck boxes tagged material of inheritance

Conclusively, you will at liberty to negotiate your interest in this
transaction.
Please reply urgently and treat with absolute confidentiality and sincerity
Best Regards,
Tomas Botchway
on behalf of Gillchrist Eva and family

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