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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: "BARRISTER STEVE OREL" <barrsteveorel@barcelona.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:25:05 -0800
Subject: BARRISTER STEVE OREL


Dear Friend,
I am BARRISTER STEVE OREL a Solicitor and the personal Attorney to
Mr. James Glenn a national of your country, who worked with Shell
Development Company in Nigeria. On the 10th of January 2002, my
Client,his wife and two children were involved in an authomobile
accident along Port-Harcourt / Warri Express Road.
Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the accident,
due to the poor major roads in nigeria, since then I have made
several enquiries at your Embassy here to locate any of my Client's
relatives, this has proved abortive/ unsuccessful. After these
abortive attempts I decided to trace his relatives over the chambers
of commerce through the Internet, but of no avail. I am contacting
you to assist in repartriating the fund and property left behind by my
client before they got confiscated or his bank accounts be declared
unserviceable by his bank, particularly, the Bank where the deceased
had an account valued at about Nineteen Million,Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars ($19.5m usd).

The Bank has signaled me a notice to provide them with my late Client's
Next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen
(14) banking days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the
relatives for over 1 years now, I want to seek your consent to present
your self as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same
Country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $19.5 m usd can
be paid to you. I propose that when the fund (US$19.5m) is eventually
paid into your bank account, that it shall be disbursed in the following order,
60% to me and 30% to you, while 10% shall be set aside to off-set all expenses
at both ends and tax as your government may demand. I have all necessary legal
documents that can be used to back up this claim as they shall be obtained from
the Federal High Court here without contravening the Nigeria laws. All I require
is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my private email above
to enable us discuss further and send me your telephone and fax numbers too.
Best regards,

BARRISTER STEVE OREL





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