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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: goldvine@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:31:15 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?TREASURE?=

DEAR Friend,

My name is Mr. Jonathan Ajowin, General Manager Corporate and Investment
Banking Division (South) with Chartered Bank Plc, Nigeria. Lagos-Nigeria.I
came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company
to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of my Colleagues and myself.As
a matter of fact, I got your information from the Nigerian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry/Nigerian Export Promotion Council.

l write in respect of a foreign customer with A/C Number: 14-2558-2004,who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter
leaving him with no immediate family or close relatives.

You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ The owner of this
account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident
of Alaska.Since the death of this our customer, Mr. Morris Thompson, I have
kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then.


Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as beneficiary to
the late Mr.Morris Thompson. The total amount in the said account is US$28.2
million and it is a domiciliary escrow bank account. It is only an insider,
the account owner or a next of kin who has information about the account
that could produce the Code or password of the deposit particulars.

The funds can only be released to a foreigner, as you know it will authenticate
your claim of heirship.As it stands now, there is nobody in the position
to produce the needed information other than my very self, considering my
position in the bank.Based on the fact that Mr. Thompson's family perished
in the same flight accident, leaving no one to put claim of the deposit
.

I am seeking for your consent and honest co-operation to present you as
the next of kin to late Thompson, and arrange for the release of the funds
to your honour for our mutual benefit.This business will not take more than
10 working days, as long as we get your full co-operation. If you are willing
assist, do write back via the email stated below indicating so that we may
commence as you know that more delays might result in the money returned
to the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am willing to share
this money with you in the ratio of 50 - 50%. You shall have 30% of the
funds and I shall share the rest with my partner at the bank. I hope this
is a fair sharing?

I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we can proceed accordingly.

Thanks and best Regards.

Mr. J. Ajowin





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