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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: "edward Tome" <edward0tome@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:52:51 +0200
Subject: Greetings!


Greetings!

After much consideration on this matter, I have decided to contact
you,believing that you will protect this transaction and give it the
attention it deserves.

I am pleased to be in contact with you. I am a top management executive of a
regional bank in the Benin Republic.I would like to know if we can work
together in partnership. I would like you to collaborate with me as a
beneficiary for a deceased client in this bank who made a fixed deposit of
USD$4.6m dollars to our bank.

He died without any registered next of kin designate and as such his funds
now have an open beneficiary mandate. And i seek your good co-operation to
do this. I will guide you professionally, but secretly on every information
that may be required of you from our bank in a most discreet manner, for us
to claim this fund for our mutual disbursement.

If you are interested, Please do let me know so that I can give you
comprehensive details on steps to take,towards maximizing this great
opportunity to our personal benefit.

VERY IMPORTANT!
reply me through my private email adress edward0tome@gmail.cm

I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.
Best of my regards

Edward Tome

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