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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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Cyril Stober <cyrilstober1@cooltoad.com>
Reply-To: cyrilstober@walla.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:05 +0000
Subject: Letter of Introduction


Attn sir/ madam,

My name is Cyril Stober; I work with the uniBank Ghana ltd and I am the head of Treasury Department of one of the branch here in Ghana. In discharging of my duty, I stumbled on this domiciliary account that has remained dormant and with Fifteen Million Six hundred and Five thousand United States dollars (US$15,605,000:00) in it.

On a personal investigation, I discovered that the account holder died in the tsunami tragedy of December 2004 while on Christmas holiday with his family in Puhket Thailand.

As of the time of this mail, no one have the idea of these money in this account and no name is on the system that shows that there is a next of kin to the account as the next of kin column is blank.

Now I am writing you so that we can work together to remit this amount of money into your account by presenting you as the next of kin hence the depositor happened to be a foreigner. It is a simple process which will take a short while to process. I will consult one of the system administrators in the bank to partner us and program your name as the next of kin to the late account holder. Note that if I do not do this to help you and I, when a new manager replaces me there is every tendency that he will do the same. Now we have to act fast as my I have just one year and two months to work officially with this Bank.

If I hear from you, I will tell you all you need to know about the money and the operational method we can use to effect the remittance into your account for our mutual benefit. You also contact me through Email: cyrilstober@cooltoad.com

Best regards,

Cyril Stober

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