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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: "felix maba" <felixmaba19@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fmaba@indiatimes.com
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:42:38 +0000
Subject: Urgent Attention(Acknowledge Receipt)

My Dear ,

My names are Collins Lugard; I work as Assistant Manager in Oceanic Bank
PLC in Nigeria. I have a confidential financial transaction I want you to be
part of. This may look unique and unusual but the summary of this
transaction is as follows.

There is one bank account in our bank, belonging to one Engineer Bunten
Wendy a citizen of United State Of America ; he was a Contractor to the
Federal Government of Nigeria Category “A”. he died in a plane crash[Korean
Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers aboard on August 6,1997. You can
view http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list From the
information I have, before his death, he never married. In this account he
has about $5.6 Million Dollars.


Presently, the bank management acting in accordance with the financial Laws
would be paying this money to the chest-account of the apex Bank (Central
Bank of Nigeria), if no one should come to claim this money at the
expiration of 3 months. Therefore, I seek for your corporation in this
circumstance. Hence, want to present you as the Next-of-kin to Engineer
Bunten Wendy. I have all the relevant information that the bank would
require from you to enable this money be processed and transferred into your
account. I see this as an opportunity and I really want to exploit it to the
last letter.

I would be glad to discuss the terms of this transaction and what you will
do next, when I get your response.

Regards,

Collins Lugard.

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