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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: ladi77logun@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 03:15:24 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ASSISTANCE=3A?=


Dear Sir.

I really regret the inconvenience this letter might cause you; more so
when it is from a stranger. You may wonder how and where I got your e-mail
address, but I really did so by searching the web out of desperation. I
am Mr.Ladi Fatai Balogun, 28 years old, the first son of Mr. Tafa Balogun,
the immediate past inspector general of police (IGP) in Nigeria. I seek
your assistance to safeguard my fathers remaining fortune because of his
recent travails in the hands of the Nigerian Government since 17th January
2005.

My father's journey to trouble started when he retired from office
on the 17th of January 2005 having served the Nigerian police in several
capacities meritoriously for over 30 years. Thereafter, he was quizzed and
questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes ommission (EFCC) on alleged
illegal acquisition of wealth while in office.

Specifically, EFCC accused my father 0f lodgment of over one billion naira
(about nine million us dollars) in a single bank account in Nigeria. They
have since seized his travelling documents including his international passport.
A federal High Court presided over by justice J. Awokunlehim in suit number
FJ(HL/L/CJ/213/2005) also granted an interim order freezing a total of 2.7
billion naira (about 24 million us dollars) traced to my fathers account
in five different Banks in Nigeria. The Federal Government through the
EFCC has also confiscated property in nigeria and are still investigating
those abroad.I am not writing to establish my fathers' innocence, rather
to safeguard the remaining money by transferring them abroad before the
Federal Government closes in on it.

To this end, my father instructed me today when I went to visit him in
his private detention cell where the EFCC kept him since Monday 28th of
March to arrange for an honest person abroad to assist us in transferring
the sum of $22 million us dollars to an oversea country. We shall discuss
the commission to be paid to you and how the money will be invested if you
agree honestly to help us.

The information disclosed above is highly confidential; please keep
your lips sealed because the allegation is under serious investigation in
Nigeria. I have to divulge this much without knowing you because I have
no option, but with your honest co-operation, it will be well. I shall
forward to you all necessary documents and details required for this transaction
if you agree to assist us. Please keep this to yourself for security reasons.


Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation.
Yours faithfully
Ladi Balogun.



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