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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • benjaminprivate@mail2world.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Brian Benjamin" <mrbrianbenjamin@yahoo.com.my>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:28:28 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Greetings....Amarjit Singh


Greetings....Amarjit Singh
This letter may seem strange I can provide irrefutable proof about all I have written. Read this with an open mind, verify what I have written independently if you wish and get back to me.
I am Mr. Brian Benjamin the manager of Auditing and Accounting department of Fidelity bank of Africa. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$60 Million dollars (sixty million dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr.Andrean schranner of Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family and son in-law and family in July 2000 in a plane crash. For more information about the crash visit this site
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
I need someone with a foreign account to be able to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to claim this money. Should you be willing to complete this transaction, send to me your private telephone for easy and effective communication and location.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you more details on this transaction, the money will be transfered to any of your account in any part of the world with by contact and connections in the banking world.
Yours Faithfully
Mr. Brian Benjamin

Email me privately at: benjaminprivate@mail2world.com or
mrbenjaminprivate@eml.cc


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