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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?kennetth=20lukeman?= <kenlukeman@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:31:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE



Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any oneapprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Kenneth Lukeman, a Manager at the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, Lagos Nigeria.I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.


A foreigner, Mr. Micheal Jean Carson, an oil Merchant /contractorwith the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash including his immediate Family, banked with us here at the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, Lagos Nigeria, and had a closing balance of USD$25M (Twenty Five Million United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts had been made by this bank to get in touch with any of late Micheal Jean Carson's next of kin, or Foreign Family relative(as his wife and only Daugther died along side with him in the Plane Crash), but all our efforts prooved abortive. Right now, the management and the Board of directors of this bank has made an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development,myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for yourpermission to have you stand as late Mr Micheal Jean Carson next of kin so that this fund (USD$25M) would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 50% of the total amount and,
50% would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country.Expences shall be taken care of by both parties involved in the Deal.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail address furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Regards.
Elder Kenneth Lukeman.



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