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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: Koko Banda <koko04@email.ro>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:00:45 +0300
Subject: LET US DO THIS



Greetings,

I am Mr. Koko Banda the Auditor General of a Prime bank in Africa.
There Is an Account opened in this bank in 1980 and since 1990 no body has
Operated on this account again. After going through some old file in
the records I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently
it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is
Dr.Phillip Morris , a Foreigner and a miner at delth Gold Co, a geologist by
Profession. He died since 1990. And no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it. The account has no other beneficiary and
my Investigation Proved to me as well that his company does not know
anything about his Account and the amount involved is USD 36m) Thirty Six
Million United States Dollars.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because the bank is going to
welcome you as a foreigner that has correct information about the
account, which I will give to you before we proceed. I know that this message
will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, we
will sign an agreement for the legitimacy of the money before proceeding
further. I strongly believe in God that you will never let me down in
this business. I need your full cooperation to make this work fine.

If you are Capable to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
we will achieve this money immediately, because this opportunity might
not Come again in life. I will also use my Position to Influence and
affect legal approvals and immediate onward transfer of this Money to
Your account with appropriate clearance from the ministries and Foreign
Exchange department. As soon as the transfer is concluded, you are
entitled to 25% of the total fund. I look forward to your earliest reply.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Koko Banda




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