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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: "wabara james" <wabarajames10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wabarajames5@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:05:37 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam
I am Dr JAMES WABARA senior branch Manager of Union Bank Plc in Abuja
Nigeria
Iam contacting you to assist in the claim of some outstanding sum of money
which was left by one of my very good clients who
died in a AF4590 plane crash on his way to america after he left nigeria to
see his family in germany. This client
Christian Eich was an engineer with one of the foremost construction firms
here in Nigeria Dantata Sawoe at Abuja.

He left no known next of kin and all our attempts to trace someone related
to him to whom we could pay the
money have met a dead end have now personally decided to contact you to
stand on behalf of the family so I can present you as his
next of kin using my influence as a senior Manager of this bank We shall
engage a Law firm to process and notarize all the
necessary documents and letter of Probate administration in your favor in
order for the transfer to take place A bank account in any part of the world
which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to
you as the beneficiary/next-of-kin This way the money can be paid to your
account 30% will be for you while 70% will be for me.

There is no risk in this project at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the Attorneys and my position
as a chief executive officer guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction.Contact me immediately if you are interested so that the claim
can take place immediatelyThe amount involved is USD10.3 million (Ten
million three hundred thousand United States Dollars) which is the account
balance.

You can view the website for more details on the death of the man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I look forward to hearing from you asap
Yours faithfully
James Wabara

NB YOU MUST NOT DISCLOSE THIS DEAL TO ANY BODY WHATSOEVER UNTILL WE CONCLUDE
SO PLEASE KEEP IT VERY CONFIDENTIAL

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