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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: princefrank03@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:22:38 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=3A=20PRINCE=20FRANK=20IFE?=

FROM: PRINCE FRANK IFE
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA,
MARINA, LAGOS.
EMAIL: frankife2003@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: 234-8033668817

Compliment Friend

I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, I got your email
address through the web while in search of who will carefully handle this
urgent and hitch free deal.

I am Prince Frank C.Ife a bank manager with UNION BANK PLC marina branch
Lagos, Nigeria. I am contacting you based on trust and confidentiality that
will be attached to this deal. The anagement and the Legal department of
our BANK (UNION BANK PLC) in a recent meeting recommended that one of my
branch depositor (customer) account Should be declare dormant and confiscate
the deposited fund into the Bank Treasury according to Nigerian Banking
and Financial law. He is a foreigner based in Nigeria, unfortunately he
is late. He died on a fatal auto crash of in 1999 . He is an account holder
in my branch, he owns a dollars account with the sum of twenty seven million
united state dollars ($27M) deposited in the account. In fact it happened

that since his death, the next of kin of the dollar account holder has not
show up for the claim and since then
nobody has come up to make claim or to say he know anything about the deceased
except the attorney.

To cut the matter short, the attorney has no contact of any of the deceased
relations.This is where I am interested on and this is where I want you
to come in. I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased, I will
give you the contact of the attorney, you will have to write to him tell
him you are a relation to the deceased and that you have found out that
Eng Barry Kelly has account with Union bank plc which you wants to lay
claim through his legal authority. He is going to be happy to assist you.
I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the claims of the money
.Please include your telephone number when replying this mail and I will
give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist
in this transaction.

Please get in touch with me by my secured and coded e-mail address at frankife2003@yahoo.co.uk
. or the above stated private telephone numbers to enable us discuss further.

After successful conclussion of this transaction we shall share the money
60% /40%

I await your urgent response.

Your sinerely,
Prince Frank C. Ife




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