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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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Some comments about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • egon_nilson5@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EGON NILSON" <egon_nilson5@msn.com>
Reply-To: egon_nilson5@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:42:52 +0000
Subject: HELLO MY GOOD FRIEND

UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
The Desk of Mr Egon Nilson.
The General Manager of Union Bank (Nig) Plc

Dear Sir,


Letter of Business Proposal

I am. Mr Egon Nilson. the General Manager of Union Bank (Nig) Plc. I want to
inquire from you if you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/
life opportunity for you and me. (30% for you, 70% for me. The transaction
is about assisting me as my foreign counterpart to enable us present you as
the Beneficiary of the usd$35million dollars left by our late deceased
foreign customer who died in a plane crash with his family since January
2001.

The Fund is currently in a suspense account awaiting claim, since the time
the bank made a public notice that they are ready to release this fund to
any of his relative abroad. I will give you more details about the
transaction when I receive your affirmative response via my email address

stated above.

Looking forward to hearing from you. All correspondences towards this
transaction will be through my alternative mailing address (
egon_nilson5@yahoo.com)

Yours faithfully.

Mr Egon Nilson.

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