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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: williametovan@terra.com.mx
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 05:01:00 +0100
Subject: William Etovan;waiting to hear from you.

Dear Friend

Good day and compliment of the seasons to you. My Name is William
Etovan,the son of Late Ishaya Mark Etovan former Minister in Nigeria
I am 27-Year-Old-Nigerian in possession of my Late dad's properties.

I lost him in a plane crash During his trip from a meeting he attended
with some other ministers in Abuja. Since his death, I have been in
charge of his business and properties and I have got no problem with
that since I have been doing that before his death.
I received a letter from one of his bank in Nigeria recently notifying
me of a paymment worth 47.5Million dollars made into his account by a
computer firm Named "IF Computer GmbH Cecinastr" 37D-82205 Gilching,
Germany.

The money as I read is the Balance payment from a computer business he
engaged in with the Federal Government of Nigeria during the NIGHA
2002(NIGERIA/GHANA NATION'S CUP CO-HOST). As a result of this
notification I have written a letter through my Lawyer to the bank to
deposit the Money into a vault House in Amsterdam -Holland, in which I
have successfully carried out in the last two month.

Since I am his next of kin ,it was so easy for me in doing this without
the knowledge of my family members .

I want to try as much as possible to transfer his money out of this
Vault House before my family members got to know about this.

I know that this issue is a very sensitive one and it should not be
discuss on the net. Why dont you send me your phone #and your Fax
Number. so that, I will get in touch with you .

This deal is a risk free one and your gain shall be 30% of this money
provided you co-operate with me.

Remember not to tell anybody about this because my daddy happens to be
very popular person even after his death.

I will be very grateful if you can help me.
you can get back at me on my Private email.

Regards
William Etovan



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