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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: "Mrs. Florence Attan" <flottan22009@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: flottan2200@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:26:00 +0200
Subject: From Mrs.Florence Attan., Rep. of Benin.


Dear
How are you today and your family? Please, I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Florence Attan, of Repulic of Benin,widow to Late Alhaji Edward Attan
(for Consular of the benin,I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed.
Please consider the transaction on it's 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 thereare many such possibilities these days.I decided to do this after praying over the situation.
There is this US$5.2 Million my husband has in an account with the Bank of Africa Benin which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no child who would have inherited this money, 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 use the money to carter for the less previlege people in the society.
This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband before he died: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged and also to orphans If this condition is acceptable to you, you should reply me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will submit them to the bank as the beneficiary and
also send the authorization that will give you the legal 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 faith 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.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Florence Attan.

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