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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: dr_armed@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:39:27 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?VERY=20=20URGENT?=

From:The Desk of Dr Edward Armed
Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Republic of Benin. West Africa.
Phone: 00229 582 115

STRICTLY SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,


Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthyinformationabout
your reliability and honesty. Hence I confidence in you.I am Dr Edward Armed,from
(AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK),Republic of Benin.Duringthe
course of our auditing we discovered the sum of twelve million fivehundredthousand
united states dollars (USD$12.500.000.00) floating in anaccountopened in
this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operatedon thisaccount
again, and after going through some old files in the recordsI discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th2001
by plane crash, hence the money is floating.

After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this accountexcepthis
wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account hasno otherbeneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that untillhis death
he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(African DevelopmentBank)BeninRep.got
information about his death, we have been expecting hisnext of kinto come
forward and claim his money because we cannot releaseit unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but up to date nobodycameup
to this bank as his next of kin or relative.


It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my departmentnowdecided
to make this businness proposal to you and release the moneyto youas the
next of kin or elation to the deceased for safety and subsequentdisbursementsince
nobody is coming forth and we don't want this money togo into the Bank treasury
as unclaimed Bill. On this note, I decided toseek
for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has comeup
as his relation.

And the country law here does not allow such money to stay more than Fiveyears,
for the money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimedafterthis
period. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to youthe application
form, bank's contact and the next step to take. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that youshouldnot
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can befinalizedwithin
fourteen banking days, after you apply to the bank as a
relation to the deceased.


It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped outtodefray
any expences that might be incured during the process of the ransaction.hen60%
will be for me which shall be release after the funds must havebeen
remitted into your bank account.When you receive this letter, kindly sendme
an e-mail signifying your decision.Includingyour private

1.Your Full name /adddress .
2.Telephone number.
3. Fax numbers .

for quick communication. I will be very happy if you can treat this businesswiththe
utmost secrecy it demands because of my position in this bank.For confidentialityreasons,kindly
Call me as soon as you get this mail.Hoping for a very successful
business relationship with you.

Best Regards,

Dr Edward Armed
Phone: 00229 582 115 (direct Line






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