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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: "Alhaji Mohammed Abacha" <alhaji_mohammed_ab@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:11:02 +0400
Subject: Please presond It is very important !!!

From Mohammed Abacha
Email: PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: (mohammed_abacha@privateemail.com) STRICTLY PRIVATE


I have decided to contact you once again through this means since I did not hear from you to know if you got my last letter
that I sent to you through courier service last month. I am now resending a copy of the letter that I have earlier sent to
you for your urgent attention as my family days of grace is drawing closer.

I am Mohammed Abacha the son to the last late military head of state in Nigeria.Just recently I have just been brief by my
late father friend who happen to be one of the top governmental body in the present head of state administration that a
meeting was head recently within the government top ranking officers that the remaining of my late father acquired properties
is going to be confiscated for illegal acquired purpose before the end of February this year (2005).

In regards to the above mention information I am desperately looking asking of your assistance to help me and my family collect
and receive most of this funds and items both home and abroad before the government confiscate the only funds that is left for
the family to survive with the way they did to my father other deposit in Swiss, England and Canada.

Recently I was arrested for a murder charge I did not commit. (See attach news paper publication). However I have recently
transfer some amount of money to a security and finance company amounting to $38,000,000.00 in cash which the Nigeria government
does not know about (PLEASE KEEP CONFIDENTIAL) The funds was moved out of the country via diplomatic means during the before my
detention and I and my family would want you to immediately travel to Europe where the funds is being lodged/ contact security/
Courier company in case you can not travel to Europe to work out the fastest way to take possession of this money and filter it
into a profitable business venture to avoid the Nigeria government from impounding this money.

For your effort in this you are expected to take 20% of this money.

The Abachas family are currently not allows assess to any of their account both here and outside the country and so are relying
heavily on a trusted friend you are and this money in there latest ordeal.

Please if this proposal is acceptable to you, contact me immediately through this email address or my confidential email address
at (mohammed_abacha@privateemail.com).

For more information, you can visit the web link below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/564586.stm
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/bumez/petition.html
http://www.odili.net/news/source/2004/oct/24/2.html
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=974

I am desperately contacting you for time essence. I have just been informed that one of the deposit with a security and courier
diplomatic company in Amsterdam will be returned back by the end of this year if not cleared and possessed.

Send the follow details below:

(1). Your Name and addresses and
(2). Confidential telephone and fax numbers.

Please reach us via email for now as soon as possible indicating your willingness and readiness to assistance in this transaction.
And I will send you more details immediately I hear from you.

Please treat as urgent.

Yours Faithfully,
Mohammed Abacha.

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