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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: Mr.Frankline Olu Eze<frank100e@tatanova.com>
Date:
Subject: From Mr.Frankline

Dear Prospective Partner,

I am Mr. Frankline Olu Eze the auditor of United Bank for Africa Plc
(U.B.A). There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and since 1990
nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old
files in the records I discovered that if I do not remit this money out
urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Hartley S. Newman a foreigner and the
manager of Granite Minning Nig, a chemical engineer by profession and
he died since 1990. No other person knows about this account or anything
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and myinvestigation
proves to me as well that his company does not knowanything about this
account and the amount involved is (U.S.$25,000,000.00).

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I
don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to any local bank here but can
only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in U.S
dollars and the former owner of the account is Mr. Hartley S. Newman and
he was a foreigner too.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the
legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from foreign payment department, With assurance
that This money will intact pending my physical arrival in your country.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% out of the
total amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses, both
parties might have incurred during the process of this transaction. I
Look forward to your earliest reply through my private e-mail
address:frank53e@yahoo.co.in

Yours truly,

Mr. Frankline Eze










Auditor,
United Bank for Africa Plc
(U.B.A)
Mr. Frankline Olu Ezeh.
Home Address: Plot 355 Independence Layout Enugu,
Enugu State Nigeria.
Office Address: United Bank for Africa Plc (U.B.A),
#71 Garden Avenue Enugu, Enugu State Nigeria.
Direct Line:+234 80 43315110

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