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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 peter Endike" <peterendike@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: peterendike@garffiti.net
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:25:01 -0800
Subject: Good Day


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Peter Endike; the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, ACB International Bank Plc; formerly African Continental Bank Plc.



I am contacting you to assist in the claim of someoutstanding sum of money which was left by one of my very good clients who died in a ghastly motor accident here inNigeria two years ago. This client, Engr. Renee Gallant, was an engineer with oneof the foremost construction firms here in Nigeria; Dantata& Sawoe. He left no known next of kin and all our attempts to trace someone related to him to whom we could pay the money have met a dead end.



I have now personally decided to contact you to stand on behalf of the family so I can present you as his next of kin using my influence as the executive director of this bank.A Law firm to process and notarize all the necessary documents and letter of Probate administration in your favor in order for the transfer

to take place. A bank account in any part of the world which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next-of-kin. This way, the money can be paid to your account: 30% will be for you while 70% will be for me.

There is no risk in this project at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will bedone by the Attorneys and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested,Please contact me immediately if you are interested so that the claim can take place immediately. The amount involved is USD10.6 million which is the account balance.

I look forward to hearing from you asap. Please send your response to my private email address as follows: [peterendike@graffiti.net] for security reasons.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Endike

CEO; ACB International Bank Plc.

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