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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: "Soni Moje" <sonimoje@atlas.cz> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2027 01:19:15 -0700
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Soni Moje (Esq), a Solicitor. I am the Personal
Attorney to Mr. Mark Ward, a national of your country who
was an oil merchant in Nigeria. My client, his wife and
their two children were involve in a car accident along
Sagbama Express Road, here in Nigeria and all occupants of
the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of
my client's extended relatives, this has proven
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, but to no
avail, hence I mandated my secretary to search for any
possible relative of my late clients in the Internet before
the bank get the account confiscated or declared
unserviceable, particularly, where the deceased had an
account valued at about US$28.5m (Twenty-Eight Million,
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars).

The bank has issued me an ultimatum notice to provide the
next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next
21 working days. I then decided to present you as the next
of kin of the deceased since my client is from the same
country. The said amount will be paid to you if you accept
to receive this money immediately and with all the
necessary documents of the deceased in my possession it
will be very easy and convient.

Immediately the money is paid to you, 60% of the total
amount will be for me, 30% for you, while the remaining 10%
should be for miscalleneous expenses or tax as your
government may require, I have all the necessary legal
documents that can be used to back up any claim we may
make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see
this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law.

I await your prompt response.

Best regards.

SONI MOJE (Esq)
SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN)

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