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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: "JENNIFER JOHNSON" <jennifer_johnson03@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:49:25 +0100
Subject: DEAR CHOSEN PARTNER

DEAR CHOSEN PARTNER

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
knowbefore. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You
should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that
you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your
contactinformation because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Jenifer Johnson,of Repulic of
Benin,widow to Late Mr. Usman Johnson (for Consular of the benin embassy in
Madrid, Spain. I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the
Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed.

There is this US$5Million ($Five million U.s Dollars) my husband has in an
account with the INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA,Ghana of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have
no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the
right of next of kin. This person will apply to the bank and request for the
transfer of the fund to his/her bank account through our family lawyer.
This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the fund for yourself,
while you will use the remaining 75% for the less previlege people in the
society. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a
substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names,Direct Telephone number and contact information so
thatI will ask our family lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give
you the right of next of kin to the account in the bank. He will also give
you a text of the application which you are to send to the bank.
I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be
transfered into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is
used as i have described above.I look forward to your response.

If it interest you kindly reply me here jenifermjohnson@mail.ru

Regards,,
Mrs. Jenifer Johnson

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