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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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Nina Yayi <ninayayi7@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ninayayi@live.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:32:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Get back to me..........




My name is Nina Yayi, the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Samuel Yayi, ple=
ase i need you to stand by me as my guardian so that the bank will release =
my family inherited money to you. My father was a wealthy Farmer in Benin R=
epublic before his untimely death which was cause by poison and my mother d=
ied in motor accident together with my only junior brother 6 years ago.=A0 =
Before the death of my father in November 2007 in a hospital here in Benin =
Republic he called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of US=
$2.8M which he deposited with a banks here that he use my name as his only =
daughter as the next of Kin to deposit.He advice me that in case if he did =
not survive that I should not=A0 live or invest the money in my country her=
e because he was killed out of envy of his success by our relatives and unc=
les that I should find a foreign guardian in any country of my choice that =
will help me to secure the money for my future life.=20

Please I need you to stand by me as my guardian so that the bank will relea=
se my inherited money to you because I have went to the bank for the releas=
e of the money to me, but the bank did not want to release the money to me =
because of my age, you will contact the bank and stand as my guardian so th=
at the bank will release my money to you since i am only 20 years plus now,=
secondly after the bank release my inheritance money to you, you will make=
arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education an=
d to live the rest of my life in your country and to invest my money in you=
r country also.=20

I look forward to receive a positive reply of accepting to help me from you=
..=20
Yours sincerely,
Nina Yayi=0A=0A=0A

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