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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: lansawyerr@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:08:12 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20Business=20Assistance?=

Dear friend,

I am an Accountant working in the Audit Department of a commercial bank.There
is a domiciliary account opened by a foreigner in my bank which the amount
in the account now is $6.750 MILLION, Operation in the Account(Deposit/Withdrawal)has
ceased since Two years back.Upon investigation it was discorvered that the
account holder died with his immediate family On the 27th of January 2002
in the Ikeja bomb blast here in my country.No person has put a claim to
the fund as next of kin after his death since no member of his family is
aware of this account.

On this development I have decided to make a claim of this fund which can
only be possible by getting an oversea account holder who is honest and
trustworthy whom i will now fix as the next of kin for easy claiming and
transferring of the said amount into his account.

Therefore,I now ask for your candid assistance in this regard as we have
done a ll our homework very well.I agreed to part with 30% to you for your
assitance and 10% earmarked for operational expenses while the remiaining
60% is for me.

Upon your acceptance i will then give you further informations for the transaction
to take off.Private E-mail: lansawyerr@yahoo.com and also include your most
confidential email address.

NB.You can also check this website for news story
about the crash three
years ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm



Thanks

LANRE SAWYERR.(Accountant General)
Victoria Island Branch.




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