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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: victorosadolor <vicosa@hongkong.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 05:55:19 -0600
Subject: Letter

FROM THE DESK OF.
MR VICTOR OSADOLOR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SERVICES DIVISION
STANDARD TRUST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
WEB SITE: standardtrust.com
SIR/MADAM
Compliment of the season.I got to know of you in search for a reputable
and reliable person to assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust
and confidentiality.
Good DayI am MR VICTOR OSADOLOR, the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR in the STANDARD TRUST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of ($14.6million) Fourteen -Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars Only in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (CHARLES BALASSAI,VALLEJO, CALIFORNAI) ,who died along with his entire family of a wife and three children in October 31, 1999 in a plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we can not release the fund from his account unless someone applies for the claims as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relatives has ever appeared to claim the fund.Upon this discovery,
I and other officials in my department have agreed to make a deal with you and release the fund into your account as the NEXT OF KIN of the decease, since no one came for it or discovered the maintained account with our Bank otherwise the fund will be returned to the bank‘s treasury as unclaimed fund.
Please visit http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm
for your confirmation of the death of The money will be paid into
your account for us to share in the ratio of 70% for me and my
colleages, and 25% for you,while 5% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of the transferring.
After the successful completion of this transaction,one of my
colleaguesand I will come to your country and mind our percentage.It is
from our share we intend to import medical equipments into my country
as a way of recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest if this proposal is OK. by you or you do not wish to take
advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you,
NOTIFICATION:THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE ,FOR
YOUR INFORMATION AND ASSURANCE TO AVOID BEIGN SCARED ABOUT THE TRANSACTIONS.
I await your immediate response.
Best Regards.
MR VICTOR OSADOLOR

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