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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: "Davis Abott" <davisabott4@msn.com>
Reply-To: davisabott@walla.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:21:31 +0000
Subject: Urgent Answer needed

FROM THE DESK OF: DR. DAVIS ABOTT
DIRECTOR FOREIGN OPERATION
STANDARD TRUST BANK
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS- NIGERIA.
PRIVATE PHONE: 234-80-60439342

Dear Sir,
I am Dr. Davis Abott director of foreign operation of Standard Trust Bank. I
believe you are capable and reliable to champion this business opportunity.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $8m. U.S.A dollars in
account number STB 15-255-5451 that belong to one of
our customer an oil merchant who died along with his entire family in Ivory
Coast political crisis 2002.
Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody apply for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately we leant that all his supposed next of kin
died along with him at the accident.
Leaving nobody behind for the claim, now decided to make business with you
and released the money to you as the next of kin of the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want
this money to go into government account, as UNCLAIMED BILL.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained
unclaimed, the money will be transferred into government account as
unclaimed bill.
That is why I want to front you in claiming this money. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.
I agree to give you 40% of this money while 60 % is for me.
You must apply first to the bank as a next of kin of the deceased which I
will send to you the text of the application as soon as I receive your
reply.
Hope you will not betray me when this money gets into your bank account
before coming to your country with my family to invest my own share.
Please always keep it confidential kindly indicate your private phone and
fax number for easy communication, trusting to hear from you.
Note please i advice you to reply via email for the confidentiality of the
transaction. I advice you to reply to my private email address :
davisabott@yahoo.fr

Yours Faithfully,
Dr Davis Abott
(Director Foreign Operations STB)

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