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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.george e. uffort" <georgeuffort@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:24:39 +0000
Subject: Attn:CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS

GEORGE UFFORT
Managing Director
Union Bank Nigeria Plc.,
44, Broad Street,
Lagos, Nigeria.

Attn:CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS.

I am RAYMOND ALIYU the managing director of Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc, the
banker to the late head of state of Nigeria who died on June 8th 1998 under
mysterious circumstance.I got your contact through commercial department of
your country's embassy in my search for a reliable and trustworthily person
to handle this top-secret transaction. You must therefore keep this
transaction a VERY TOP SECRET.

THE SOURCE OF THE FUND:The late dictator General Sanni Abacha deposited the
sum of $825.3 Million U.S. Dollars in his private account means which I am
the managing director,but with serious conferment in me that I would never
reveal this to anybody apart from his wife Mrs. Maryam Abacha, which he go
as an over invoice from the Ajaokuta Steel Mill the proposal largest steel
Mill in African continent.The contract was awarded to a Russian firm, but
after his mysterious death,the new military government that emerged then
set-up a commission of enquiries into all contacts awarded by the late
dictator, but could not complete their mission due to the emergence of a
democratic government headed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the president of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who vowed to continue with the
predecessor commitment by setting up commission of enquiries to track down
the account of the late dictator both in Nigeria and overseas, through
different ways by media and other means. In this cause I have declared
$800 million United states Dollars to the Federal Government of Nigeria as
the family have no knowledge of the total amount deposited in my
bank.While I have transferred the balance of $25.3 million U.S. Dollars to
a subsidiary of Union Bank Plc. With the knowledge of three senior officers
of the bank. But we cannot lay claims to this found due to our position
in the bank.

We therefore solicit your assistance in transferring this amount to your
private or company account, as this transaction is risk free with our
involvement.We thereby agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum
while 75% would be shared among us, the officials.If you have any positive
response toward my proposal, please contact me without delay on the above
e-mail address or at raymond_aliyu@yahoo,com. I look forward to your
earliest response.

GEORGE UFFORT.

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