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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: "James Eric" <mccougan57@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mccougan2008@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:33:18 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have the honour to introduce to you this business in view of
the fact that you may be trustworthy and

reliable. I am Mr JAMES ERIC a senior staff with an TRUST BANK
PLC IN NIGERIA.
There is an account opened in this bank in April 2000, but since
October 2003, nobody has operated on this

account. After intensive investigations, I discovered that the
owner of this account was the owner of

MOHAMMED M. KHALID & CO LTD.A foreign Contractor who died in a
ghastly motor accident that took

place while he was going to one of his company's construction
site in August 2003, unfortunate his account

has no beneficiary.

My investigations prove to me as well that his company does not
know any thing about this private account

of his.The amount involved is (15 MILLION USD). In the light of
the fact, I needed your assistance to open

our door for this golden opportunity by providing any account of
your choice where the fund will
be remitted immediately.

Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management is ready to welcome any person, a

foreigner black or white who has correct information of this
account,which I am ready to give to you if you

are interested to conclude this transaction with me.

You should be informed strictly that I would burn all the
Documents involved in this transaction in your

presence immediately after this money has been remitted to your
account as the co-beneficiary.I will use

my position and influence to affect the onward transmission of
this money into our desired account. At the

conclusion of this business, you will recieve 40% of the total
amount,55% will go for me, meanwhile 5% is

mapped out for the expenses made.

I thank you immensely for your understanding If you are
interested please send to me your contact address

, telephone and fax numbers for easy contact , You can contact
me trough my private email:

mccougan2008@hotmail.com
Yours faithfully,
MR. JAMES ERIC


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