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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: stepheneze2000@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:28:20 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20await=20your=20earliest=20response=2E?=

STEPHEN, EZE
BRANCH MANAGER,
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC
ILUPEJU BRANCH LAGOS
NIGERIA.
ATTN: PRESIDENT/C.E.O

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business

proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but my

confidence was reposed on you when the Chief Executive of Lagos State chamber

of Commerce and Industry handed me yourcontact for a confidential business.
I
am the manager of United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA),Ilupeju branch, Lagos
Nigeria.
The intended business is thus; We had a customer, a Foreign resident in
Nigeria,
he was a Contractor with one of the

Government Parastatals.He has in his Account in my branch the sum of US
15.5
Million (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars).Unfortunately,
the
man died three years ago until today non-of his next of kin has come forward

to claim the money. Having noticed this, I in collaboration with two other
top
Officials of the bank have covered up the account all this while.
Now we want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as one of his next of
kin and
forward your account and other relevant documents to be advised to you by
us to
attest to the Claim. We will use our positions to get all internal
documentations to back up the claims . The whole procedures will last only
five
working days to get the fund retrieved successfully without trace even now
or
in future.Your response is only what we are waiting for as we have arranged
all necessary things.

As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to me indicating your

interest, then I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure that
the
deal is successfully concluded. For your assistance we have agreed to give
you
twenty five percent (25%) of the Total sum at the end of the transaction
while
65% would be for my colleagues and I and the remaining 10% would be for
any
form ofexpenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction
which
would be given to us when the money is transferred into your account before

splitting the balance on the agreed percentage of 65% to 25%. In order to
get
all the legal documents from the court, kindly send the following information

to us immediately. Your full name,telephone,mobile and fax numbers as well
as
your resident or company address.I await your earliest response.
Thanks,
Yours Sincerely,

STEPHEN, EZE




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