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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: "terry" <abadulahiterry12@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: terrykadon12@asiamail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:05:13 -0800
Subject: HELLO

From: TERRY ABADULAHI
Subject: STRICTLY LEGITIMATE
TEL;234 -80340-81254

From: HEAD OF OPERATIONS
FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC(HQ)
LAGOS STATE-NIGERIA.

ATTENTION:

It is my humble pleasure and trust, I write this very important letter to
you. I got your contact through a friend whom I told I needed an assistance
on some information, although I did not disclose the nature of this business
to him, since it demands absolute secrecy. Firstly, I must solicit your
strictest confidentiality in this transaction, this is by virtue of its
nature as being top secret and confidential. I am TERRY SANUSI ABADULAHI,
Head of operation Unit, First Bank Nigeria Of Plc (HQ) Lagos Nigeria. I
know that a transaction of this magnitude will make some one whom you didn't
know for the first time to feel apprehensive, but be assured that all will
be well with every involved persons at the end of this business.

THE PROPOSITION:

A FOREIGNER, MR. Ronald Lake,.(AN EXPARTRIATE ENGINEER), who has a domiciliary
account with this Bank, FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC (HQ) foreign operation
dept., MR.Ronald Lake,is an oil merchant/contractor with the Federal Government
of Nigeria for many years, but for about four(4) years now from 1999 his
account was dormant without saving more money or withdrawing from the account
as it used to be, because of this development, his account officer MR.ALFRED
CHUKWU reported the matter to me as the head of the dept., upon this report
that I conducted a personal investigation by sending MR. ALFRED to the address
submitted by MR. Ronald Lake, as of the time he opened the said account
with us to know the case or reason of everything before the matter will
be made known to the bank in general, but pity he came back with a report
to me conforming that MR. Ronald La ke,died some time in the year 2000 in
a plane crash, you comfirm it with this web:
leaving in His account the sum of usd28m cash. Now I have informed the bank
authorities and board members about this matter and after many meetings
they resolved that I should contact MR. Ronald Lake, relatives or next of
kin on behalf of the bank, hence is in my dept for them to file a letter
of claim, but all effort by this dept to contact any of his relations or
next of kin proved unsuccessful, the embassy of his country has tried without
success and write me on behalf of first bank suggesting that the fund be
shared to THE RED CROSS, CHILD CARE TRUST or MOTHERLESS BABIES HOME and
AIDS ORGANISATION IN AFRICA. In order to prevent the bank from diverting
this fund as unclaimed fund or sharing it as said by the embassy which I
know they will not do, I and my colleagues MR.ALFRED CHUKWU being MR. Ronald
Lake, account officer, the bank lawyer, P.R.O. Officer and th e administrative
Manager now seek your assistance for you to stand as the next of kin / relation
of MR. Ronald Lake, in claiming this US28m. All the documents to enable
you cliam this fund will be carefully provided to you to submitt the work
out of this claim. If this is acceptable to you, forward to me your telephone,fax,
mobile number, your bank detail, as more detail will follow up. We will
be also happy to hear from you, your percentage, immediately this fund is
being remitted into your account. Note that high degree of trust is required
from you, not betrayal.

Thanks and Best Regards,
TERRY SANUSI ABADULAHI


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