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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: "Dr. Edward Thomas" <dr_edwardthomas170@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <dr_edwardthomas01@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:08:57 +0100
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS PAYMENTS.



INTERNATIONAL-BANK PLCCOMPENSATION OFFICEINTERNATIONAL BANK/ UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.ATTN: SIR/MADAM,REF/PAYMENTS CODE: INB/06654 $200,000 USD.This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITEDNATIONS in International Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $200,000 USD (Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Only each).You are listed and approvedfor this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediatepayments of your $200,000 USD compensations funds.On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the lastU.N. meetings held at Benin it was alarming on the money lostby various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates allover the world today. In other to compensate victims, the UNITEDNATIONS Body is now paying 150 victims $200,000 USD each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficientBanking Systems in Benin the payments are to be paid by International Bank du Benin as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by BRITISH GOVERNMENT.Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared andrecommended for payment by INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries hasbeen paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States, we stillhave an outstanding of 36 scam victims left to be paid. Other victimswho have not been contacted can submit their application as well forscrutiny and possible consideration.We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get responsefrom you on how you intend receiving your compensation payment.Send a copy of your response and payment code to our remittanceofficer:NAME: Dr.James Frank Moris
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:INB/06654 $200,000 USD.PHONE NUMBER:+22997268056+22997012579EMAIL: ncpc_beninrepublic@yahoo.com.auYours Faithfully,Mr. Edward Thomas



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