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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: tochijohnson2002@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:38 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Reply?=

Dear friend,

I am Mr. Tochi Johnson, the auditing manager of Banque Togolaise Pour Le
Commerce Et Industrie (BTCI) Lome Togo. During our investigation and
auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money
belonging to a deceased person who died on 31st October 1999 in a plane
crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without
any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation
before my discovery to this issue. The said amount was U.S $1.7 M (One
Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide
next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this
money to a foreign account has been put in place . The transfer of this
fund will require a second party or fellow who will forward claim as
the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the Bank and also present
a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into
on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by
the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted
from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On
smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of
the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care
of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone
bills, while 65% will be for me. I will be monitoring the whole situation
here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and I will
come over to your country for my own share of the fund.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Tochi Johnson





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