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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: adeadeolu@terra.com.mx
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:03:21 +0200
Subject: LISTEN


ATTN:President/CEO,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Good day,
My name is Olu Adesina staff of the ACCESS BANK NIGERIA PLC. I am an auditors

with the said bank, I discovered an account with the sum of
US$27.800,000.00.( Twentyseven million eight hundred thousand US dollars)
that has
been abandoned and unserviced for more than eleven years belonging to
one of our customer. Our banking law stipulates that if such account
remaim unserviced and the fund unclaimed for twelve years, the money will

be confiscated and go to the bank revenue as an unclaimed fund.
It is upon this discovery my colleaques and I decided to make our
secret and personal inquiries about the account's owner (depositor) and
the
next of kin, but sadly, he died with his Wife and only child in a plane

crash. We solicit that you stand as the next of kin so that the money
will be transfered to your account or any other account you may provide

for us. We proposed that the money be shared as follows, 30% for you,
650% for my colleaques and I,then the remaining 5% will cover any expencs
that may occur in the process of transfering the money. As officials of
the bank, we have the full
account information and document to surport your claim.
Please, could you urgently notify me of your acceptance to assist in
this transaction, I shall inturn provide you with all necessary
information about the account and the modalities for a formal application
to
secure the claim and the immediate transfer of the fund to your account
or
any other account you may provide for us.Since we have no knowledge of business,
our plan is to invest this money
into Real Estate, Stocks and we can also invest in some other profitable
businesses in your country based on your advice because many of our years
has been spent as public workers, and we may likely resign from our present
work to private business after this money is transferred into your
account.I would require the following: -
Your company's name,your full name,your residential address,telephone and
fax numbers.I believe you do understand the confidential nature of this
transaction
and hope you will be honest and trustworthy.If you are interested,then contact
me immediately or through my private email address at oluoluaa@yahoo.com
so that we can proceed immediately.
Best regards,
Olu Adesina


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