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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: "Mr Johnson George" <jg700@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jgeorge@katamail.com
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 08:55:38 +0200
Subject: Urgent & Confidential.

Hello Sir,

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 ($21,300.000.00 USD) Twenty one 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. Johnson George, 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
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html 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 Twenty One million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only
[$21,300.000.00] 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.Reply to: jgeorge@katamail.com


Best Regards,

Johnson George.

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