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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: jeffrey_zanna1@terra.com.mx
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:30:26 +0200
Subject: MR. JEFFREY ZANNA.

FROM THE DESK OF MR. JEFFREY ZANNA.
jeffrey_zanna99@yahoo.fr
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU L QUEST
ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE

Dear friend,

With due respect and huminity, I write to you this proposal.I am the manager
of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale
du Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive information about you
through one of my friends who run a consultancy firm in your country. He
assured me of your capability and reliability to champion thisbusinees opportunity.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$17m US dollars (seventeen
millionUS dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family in november 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided
to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the
next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming forth and we don?Lt want this money to go into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
According to our Banking policies and guideline here which stipulates that
if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will automatically
be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner an Ivorian,that someone from ivory coast here cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 25 % of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,
10 %will be for reimbursement of any expenses incured during the curse of
the transaction and 65 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after
I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easier and effective communication and location where
the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact
me immediately as soon as you receive this letter with my private mail Box:(jeffrey_zanna99@yahoo.fr)

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
BEST REGARD
MR. JEFFREY ZANNA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.

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