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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: akinwilliams101@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:26:50 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP=2E?=

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am an accountant with GRAND BANK AFARICA PLC ., My name is Mr. AKIN WILLIAMS.
I am the Personal Account officer to Engineer. Andrew Wilson, a National
of your country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES,VICTORIA
ISLAND LAGOS. Herein after shall be referred to as my client On 30 JAN 2000,my
client, his wife and their three children were involved in the Kenya Airways
flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination
Lagos and all the passengers on-board and the flight crew, including his
family died in this fatal aircrash on 30 JAN 2000.

Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of
my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and propertyleft
behind by my client before they getconfiscated or declared unserviceable
by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged,particularly the GRAND
BANK AFARICA PLC ,.Where the deceased had an account valued at about ($10
Million US Dollars) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued
at ($10 Million US Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can share
the money 50% to me and 40% to you. While 10% for unforeseen bottle necks
we might incure in this transaction an attorney will be contracted to help
us revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.Iguarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you and I from any breach of the law.

Please reply to my confildential/private E-mail addredd: akinwllms@yahoo.com

Best regards,

MR.AKIN WILLIAMS





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