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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: favoradimduke1@tiscali.co.uk
Reply-To: favoradimduke@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:41:39 +0200
Subject: Inland Bank plc.

Inland Bank plc.
Lagos .
P.M.B. 0505, Bauchi.
Dear Friend,
Please forgive me if I intrude your privacy, we do not know each other but
it does not matter. what matters is transperency between us in this deal.
I am Mr favor Adim Duke an Accountant with Inland Bank plc. I came to know
about you in my private search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle this confidencial business transaction. A foreigner, Late
Engr Burke Sean a Contractor with the Federal Government Of until his death
in Korean Air flight 801, which Crashed in Guam on August 1997, banked with
us here at Inland Bank P.l .c and had a closing balance of US$20.5M (Twenty
Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which the bank unquestionably expects
it to be claimed by any available next of kin of the late beneficiary or
alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for Arms and Ammunition
at a Military War College here in Nigeria.
Valuable effort have been made by the Inland bank to get in-touch with any
of the Burke's family or relative but proved to no avail. it is because
of the perceived possiblity of not being able to locate any of the late
Engr. Burke Sean's next of kin that the management under the influence of
our chairman and Members Of The Boards Of Director, Mr I Yuguda, that an
arrangement be made for the funds to be declared Unclaimable and subsequently
be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further Enhance
the course of war in Africa and the World in General as you know that war
will eventually bring destruction to man kind. In order to avert this negative
development, I now seek your permissionto have you stand as the Next-Of-Kin
Of . Engr Burke Sean so that the funds US$ 20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars) would be release and pay into your Bank Account as the
Next Of Kin.
This is a deal between you and I only as all Documents and proofs to enable
you get this Fund will be carefully Worked out and more so I am, Assuring
you a 100% Risk Free Involvment in this deal. your share out of the $20.5m
depends on our agreement as we procceed with the deal. I will also like
to invest my own part of the money in your country with your help after
the transfer. If this Proposal is all right by you then kindly get back
to me by e-mailingme thanking you in anticipation of your co-operation.
I like if you visit this web site for more clarification on clash. (http://ns.gov.gu/guam/index.html)
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Favor adim Duke
Accountant Inland Bank plc.
Lagos Branch
private email (adim@omaninfo.com)




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