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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "investment"<reality300@myway.com>
Reply-To: henrypeters@o2.pl
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:07:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Advise Please










FROM MR HENRY PETERS.ECOBANK,Rue du Gouverneur Bayol B.P. 1280,Cotonou, Benin Republic.My Dear,I work as an Auditor with Ecobank of Cotonou, Benin Republic. There was a customer with a credit balance of USD28.5Million in Ecobank which I discovered in Januay 2006 during end of year auditing for the year ended 2005.The owner/investor died in 2003 leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for re-transfer of his Investment and its proceeds to the INHERITOR/BENEFICIARY.I have personally carried out an Investigation which took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that there is no traceable Family or Relatives of the Investor. His company too knows nothing about his Investment with EcoBank and none has any records of all his deposits and investment with the bank leaving an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the INHERITOR/BENEFICIARY to the deceased investments/estates. If you are interested!
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I can present you as the INHERITOR/BENEFICIARY with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds claimed and on doing this, ECOBANK will not question the release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the laid down rules and laws of claiming the Investment of a deceased Investor in the bank.Our sharing ratio will be 35% for you and 55% for me and then 10% will be set aside to offset the expenses that we may incur in the transaction.Please contact me for more details.Looking forward to hearing from you shortly. Best Regards,HENRY PETERS



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