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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: dryomi_benson@o2.pl
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:13:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: INVESTMENT LETTER


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:bensonyom@yahoo.com.co



- Hello,Following the good position of your country in investment purposes, I decided to propose below mutual business transaction to you.I hope you will accept it and extend your cooperation to me. First, I wish to introduce myself to you.I am Yom Benson, presently based in the United Kingdom for this matter.There are some certain funds floating in Escrow Account of my Community Bank.This fund arose from the sales of Crude Oil allocated to us by the Federal Government. Out of the total Amount, we succeeded in paying half of the fund to our Community Leader to disburse to his subjects and the balance is what I and my Partner want to transfer urgently to your Account for Investment.I will give you the tactical formula for the transfering of the fund as soon as we receive yourinformation such as your Private Telephone and Fax Numbers, Contact Mailing Address and your Business or Company Name which would be used to prepare documents forthe transfer.You will be rewarded after the investment. Regards Yom Benson

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