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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: "benson osaro" <benosaro@msn.com>
Reply-To: benosaro@mighty.co.za
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:25:19 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED

URGENT REPLY NEEDED


Dearest

Am Benson Osaro , in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to ask
for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in
my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars)
in an account belonging to one of our a foreign customer(Herve Garboudes)
who was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip. He
died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair Flight 111 ,
which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998.
The plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detail informaion:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.

We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if such
money remained unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it would be
transferred into the MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another
officer and I in the department now decided to transfer
this money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased
for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this
money to go back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out
this money through another foreign beneficiary
outside the country. We have decided to give you 30% of the total sum. So
please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and fax numbers
for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are interested, Please if you are interested, reply through
this email address only:

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Benson Osaro

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