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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 Musa Toure" <toure032@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:10:28 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTAIL BUSINESS.

Mr.Musa Toure.
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
African Development Bank/ADB.
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET)
Greeting,

Good evening and how are you doing?I hope fine.Please let this my message do
not be a surprise to you because i got your information and lay trust in you
before i contacted you.

I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided
to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO
MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22,300,000.00).This
is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank foreign customers
who died along with his completely family on the year 2002, in a plane crash
disaster.I was very fortune to came acroos the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2003-2004 in other to
submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes.

It is clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that
if such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of FOUR
(4) years starting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will
be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides,it is not
authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make
the claim of the fund.So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to
apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable
bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.When the fund is transferred
into your account,FOURTY PERCENT(40%) will be for you in an assistance and
in provision of the bank account,while SIXTY PERCENT (60%) will be for me.

If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and
confidentiality,reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call
me as you reply on (+226 76 69 49 86) so that i will let you know the steps
to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.I will be
waiting for your urgent reply.

My regards to you and your family,
Mr.Musa Toure.

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