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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: jimmy_tu@tiscali.it
Reply-To: jimmy_t@sify.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:49:39 +0100
Subject: ENDEAVOUR TO RESPOND URGENTLY.

From: Dr. Jimmy T.Ugo
Auditor General,
Oceanic International Bank, PLC
Lagos Nigeria

NOTE: REPLY ALL MAILS VIA EMAIL: jimmy_t@sify.com


Attention Please,

ENDEAVOUR TO RESPOND URGENTLY.

I am pleased to introduce myself to you. My name is
DR. Jimmy T.Ugo. Auditor General,Oceanic
International Bank, PLC Lagos Nigeria, a Nigerian
currently on a training course in London United
Kingdom for few months.

I am contacting you in regards to a business
transaction of the sum of money from a deceased
account (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), who was a business
man to Pacific Coast Oil Company, in Nigeria. Though I
know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of this business
transaction by the special grace of almighty God
believing that you can never let me down either now
and after you have receive the money.

I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction because I am presently taking a managerial
cause in the United Kingdom and I am the operation
manager of said bank specified above. I am contacting
you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a
foreign account as the real beneficiary.

I need your full co-operation, Trust and Honest to
make this work successful, because the management is
ready to approve this payment to any Foreigner who has
the correct information to this account which I will
give to you when I find out that you are capable of
handling this business transaction.

We do not want to make any mistake and I need your
strong assurance, trust and co-operation to make ends
meet by concluding this transaction soonest.

We shall destroy all documents concerning this
transaction immediately we receive this money living
no trace to any place. 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 for the sharing and
other investment.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$28,000,000.00
(Twenty-Eight Million United State Dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our customers (DR.
DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), a Foreigner, who died along with
the passagers and crew aboard Egypt air flight 990,
which crashed into the atlantic ocean on October 31,
1999 with his lovely wife (MRS.BETTY VAN BUSKIRK) and
his entire family.

Since their death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims to this money
as the as their own. Please, you can confirm through:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html

We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to
have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by us for
the funds (US$28,000,000.00) to be released in your
favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from
the probate an order of madamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries which I will gladly present you
as the person and process all relevant documents in
your favour.

Please, acknowledge the receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following through my above
email address:

1. Your full names, address and a photocopy of your
passport photograph.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals in your favor before the transfer can be
made and this take place after my conversation with
you on telephone. We shall be compensating you with
25% of the total money on final conclusion of this
project while the rest shall be for me and my staff.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you. I
await your urgent response and note that you are the
only person I have contacted for now and any delay
will make me to contact another person for the same
transaction. May God bless us, Amen?

Your sincerely,

Dr. Jimmy T.Ugo.
Auditor General, Oceanic Int'l Bank



jimmy_t@sify.com

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