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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: "diya" <diya_dipo@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: diya_katabank@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:50:23 +0100
Subject: FROM THE BANK

My Dear,

I am a staff of Kata Bank of Nigeria Lagos - Nigeria. I am contacting
you for a business that involves a huge sum of money from a dormant
account. We have a dormant deposit belonging to a foreign contractor named

Idris Husseinwho died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st
October 2003.

He had a Special Deposit of US$14.8m (Fourteen Million Eight Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) with our Bank before his death. All my
efforts to locate his true relations/next of kin, has proved abortive as

he did not indicate such in all the official documents he tendered to
Kata Bank.

The Money is about to be reverted back to the Bank's treasury, hence I
solicit for your Assistance/permission to process all requisite
documents in your favour by using your name as his legitimate next of
kin/beneficiary to transfer this money into your account. All arrangement
to
legally change your name to suit his next of kin's name has been put in

place.

Please kindly furnish me with your contact details to enable me discuss

further with you and start up with the process immediately. If
interested, send your bank details: Your bank name, address, telephone and
fax
numbers. Your personal details: Your real name, address, telephone and
scanned copy of your international passport or Driving License for
identification purposes.

I will introduce you to an Attorney (Lawyer) here, whom you will
contact and inform about the transfer of the fund. He will then on your

behalf get all the legal documents to legalize the transfer and you will
be
the legal beneficiary of the special deposit. The lawyer will act on
your behalf from the beginning until the money gets into your nominated

bank account.

The fund will be shared in this way, 30% for you, 65% for me and my
colleagues while 5% will be for all the expenses incurred in the course
of
the transfer. To get this money transferred, we have to pay the lawyer,

pay for bank transfer charges, that is why we are mapping out 5% from
the total money for expenses and this will be refunded from whoever
provided the money before sharing according to the agreed percentage.

Please if you know you are not capable of handling such fund in your
account and are not ready to see to the successful transfer of the money,

dont waste your precious time, just ignore the proposal. This is not a
child's play, rather an opportunity that must be actualized and
fulfilled by the grace of God.

To assure you of the reality of the transfer, i have the deceased
Certificate of Deposit , his death certificate which he has with our bank.
I can as well send you my bank identification card.


This transaction is risk free on your part, strictly private and must
be treated with utmost confidentiality for security reasons. The
transfer will be concluded within 14 working days from the date of application

of claim if you meet all the requirements from your side for the
transfer to commence. Hope to hear from you.

Best regards,

Diya Oladipo


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