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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: "RAVIV EITAN" <raviv_eitan@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: raviv-eitan@firehousemail.com
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:40:49 -0700
Subject: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION


Top of Form 1
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Bottom of Form 1
With all due respect, my name is Raviv Etan. I am the
head of customer
service department of a securities & deposit bank in
europe with a network
of branches in 6 cities of the world. My reasons for
contacting you is very
simple but first and foremost,i got your contact
informations through a
personal research.To really understand my intentions
and reasons for
contacting you, please take a careful look at the web
page below
WEB PAGE;
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_909000/909972.stm>
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_877000/877113.stm>

Recently, i have received letter/emails from various
people who at one time
or the other have come up with some documents
claiming to have the legal
backing to withdraw from an account with our bank.But
due to the conflicts
in their claims, myself and a colleague of mine in the
computer
department made some preliminary investigation and
shockingly discover
that indeed the sum of fifty seven million dollar
($57,000,000.00) was deposited
with with a company name(STRABAGGS NIG.LTD.). But our
findings revealed that
the said deposit belonged to the late Nigerian head
of state Gen. sani abacha.
And the money was embezzled from the Nigerian oil
reserve .As a duty to the
people of Nigeria,the present Nigerian Government have
been contacted after
a long thought. right now, we are at the middle of a
very important
meeting on how the money will be remitted to the
government and people of
Nigeria. However, not all was declared .we withheld
nine million dollar
($9, 000000).that money most be wired out to a save
place before it is
discovered. I need you to be part of this by way of
assisting us secure the funds.
We will agree on a percentage so that every one will
be happy.

If you are capable of handling such large funds
without drawing
attention to your self, please reply through return
mail, indicating your
interest and willingness to help and I will send you
the more information
regarding your role in this project. However, if my
proposal dose not meet your
moral ethics.please feel free to disregard this
massage.
Thank in anticipated co-operation
Mr.Raviv Etan.

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