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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: alexanderchidi005@terra.com.mx
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 02:40:31 +0000
Subject: Business relationship

Dear friend,
I am MR Alexander M.Chidi Bank Manager of Union Bank of NIGERIA.I
have
an urgent and confidential business proposal for you. PROPOSAL: On JULY
31,
2000, an American oil merchant/Contractor with the NIGERIAN NATIONAL
PETROLEUM COPORATION, MR Manuel Smith, made a numbered
time(Fixed)
Deposit for twelve (12) calendar Months, valued atUSD28,000,000.00
(Twenty-Eight>Million Dollars)in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.After a month, we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, THE
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPORATION that MR Manuel Smith died from an
air
crash accident. See:<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
for details on the tragedy.
On further investigation, I found out that he died
without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his
NEXT OF KIN was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that MR Manuel Smith
did not declare any KIN OR RELATIONS IN ALL HIS OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS,
INCLUDING HIS BANK DEPOSIT PAPER WORK IN MY BANK. This sum of
USD28,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. NO PERSONWILL
EVER COME FOWARD TO CLAIM IT. According to NIGERIAN LAW, at the expiration
of 5(FIVE) YEARS, the money will revert to the ownership of the NIGERIAN
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF NOBODY APPLIES TO CLAIM THE FUND.

Consequently, my proposal is that I WANT YOU TO STAND IN AS THE NEXT OF
KIN/BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND. So that the fruits of this old man 92years
labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.

What we are going to do is simple. You have to provide the following
informations.
1: YOUR FULL NAMES AND ADDRESS:
2: YOUR PRIVATE PHONE AND
FAX NUMBERS:
3: YOUR BANKING INFORMATIONS:We shall use these
informations to prepare
DOCUMENTS AND AFFIDAVITS, THROUGH AN ACCREDITED ATTORNEY REPRESENTING YOU
AS
THE NEXT OF KIN/BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND DEPOSIT.
We shall need the services of the Attorney for the DRAFTING AND NOTARISATION
OF THE WILL, AND FOR OBTAINING ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS AND LETTER OF
PROBATE/ADMINISTRATION IN YOUR FAVOUR FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE FUND; into
an
account you will provide. For your assistance, you will be adequately
compensated with 40%) of the total sum. (55%) will be my own share while
(5%) will be set aside to cover any incidental expenses made both at home
and abroad before conclution of this deal.
This transaction is 100% risk free as the
paper work will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch
Manager guarantees the successful execution. If you are intrested in
assisting me in this transaction,please reply by sending me a mail to this
address <alexanderchidi005@yahoo.com> and call me on my direct telephone
number <234-80-30779738> for vital oral discussion .upon your responce,i
shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will
help you understand this transaction better. Please realise that the
confidentiality of this arrangement must be maintained from now,and even
after the sucessful complition of this transaction.i will meet with you
in
you countryfor disbursment after the fund have been released to you and
also
to discuss investment potentials as i will like to invest in your country
with your assistance. awaiting your urgent reply through the above email
address .thank you and God bless.

regards
ALEXANDER CHIDI


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