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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: "kema st_kema" <st_kema@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: skema10th@mixmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:38:52 +0000
Subject: Response Needed !

Kems and Associates
Subject: Librate Fund
email : skema10th@mixmail.com

My name is Mr. Steve Kema the personal attorney to the late chief Mrs
Stella Obasanjo the Nigerian first lady who died in a sparnish hospital on
the 23 of october 2005 as a result of complications resulting from a
surgery.
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4368806.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html )
As the personal attorney to the deceased,i handle every of her affairs
locally and internationally.

With the demise of my client,huge sums of money in pounds,dollars and Euro
are left at my disposal,and very soon it is expected that my client's family
will want me to come up with whatever that belongs to the deceased woman in
my possession both locally and overseas.

Therefore, i seek your consent to present you as benefactor to my client's
fund deposited somewhere in Europe during our last trip to Europe before her
demise which i shall disclose to you since iam the only being that has the
legal documents of the last deposite.I shall procure documents that will
make you a legal benefactor of that particular fund upon the reciept of a
positive response from you,these documents will qualify you as the legal
benefactor of the fund and will enable you lay claims for the funds.

All i require is your honest co-operation to enable us bring this
ONE-IN-A-LIFE-TIME opportunity (Deal) to its logical conclusion.I guaranttee
you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement.Also, i wish
to assure that all neccessary arrangements have been put in place to see
this transaction to its successful conclusion.This transaction is 100% risk
free as nothing endangers you here,your country or anywhere in the world as
long as you follow my instructions being the initiator of the transaction.

I have agreed to share the fund in the following ratio.50% goes to me the
initiator,while 40% goes to you the account owner.10% be set aside to offset
any expenses.Should be interested in my proposal, please send to me,your
personal informations i.e your name and address, bank account
number,telephone and fax numbers to enable be start of neccessary
documentations that will see the fund released to you.

Please channel your response to >> skema10th@mixmail.com

Awaiting your positive and urgent response ASAP.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Kema (Esq).

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