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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: mabacha2000@terra.com.mx
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 05:33:12 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY

MARIAM ABACHA
ABACHA ESTATE
KATSINA ROAD
KANO NIGERIA

Sir/Ma

I am Mariam Abacha, wife of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha, Ex-military (sic)
Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who died on 8th June 1998
of heart problems. I am contacting you because of the need to deal with
persons whom my family and I have no previous personal relationships with
and, this is for security reasons.
Since the death of my husband, my family had been subjected to all sorts
of harassment and intimidation with lots of negative reports emanating from
the government and the press about my husband; it is because the present
Government that succeeded him is made up of mostly his enemies.

Recently, I was banned from traveling (sic) outside Kano State -my home
state, as a form of house arrest. It is in view of this that I seek your
co-operation and assistance in the transfer of the sum of US$100,000,000.00
(One Hundred Million United States Dollars cash) being the very last of
my family fund in my possession and control. As earlier attempt in the physical
movement of the sum of US$150,000,000.00 was to no avail as the money was
confiscated and my international passport impounded at the Murhitala Mohammed
Airport, Lagos in August 1998.

The Federal Government has seized all our properties and frozen all our
bank accounts both local and international, but my only hope now is the
available US$100,000,000.00, which my late husband carefully packed and
deposited with a Security Company in Senegal, a West African country as
a 'PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS' where my brother in-law is working as a General
Manager when my husband died.

I will be expecting your sure and urgent reply on these matter If you are
willing to assist us in receiving this money on our behalf, then, my lawyer
will arrange to meet with you face to face outside Nigerian, in order to
liaise with you towards achieving mutual benefits -of which you will be
entittiled to 10% of the fund.

The moment we get a go-ahead order from you, we have necessary legal documents
to back up the money, which shall come in your name.
Waiting, to receiving your unalloyed respond immediately.

Best regards,
Mariam Abacha



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