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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: akeems23@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:30:53 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hello?=


Hello,

Greetings from Cotonou,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this
letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it
serious. We want to transfer to an oversea account
($8,300.000.00 USD) eight Million Three Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) from a ECO BANK here in COTONOU,
REPUBLIC OF BENIN. I want to ask you, If you are not
capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person
who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing
bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end for this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either
now or in future.

I am Mr.Akeem Williams, presently promoted to Auditor
General of ECOBANK. During the course of our auditing last
week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1996 and since 1998 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and
if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American
and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crahsed on January 31 2000,
including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to
claim the money. You shall read more news about the crash
on visiting this site:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp

No other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that the account is a
secret account.

The total amount involved is eight million Three Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars only [$8,300.000.00] and we
wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account
abroad.

But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a
local person here, but to a foreigner who has information
about the account,
which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I
am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will
never let me down in this business, you are the first and
the only person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next
step to take urgently.


I need your strong assurance that you will never let us
down, me and key bank officials who are deeply involved
with me in this business. I guarantee that this
transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no
trace to any place. I will use my position and influence
to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from the
relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25%
of the total amount, 70% will be for us,while 5% will be
for expenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply. PLEASE, TREAT THIS
PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.altanative e mail:david100@outgun.com

Best Regards,

Akeem Williams



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