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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: "Ekpe Lawrence" <ekpelaw@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:32:33 +0000
Subject: Hi .

From: Dr. Ekpe Lawrence.
Bills & Exchange Manager
Stanbic Bank Of Nig. Ltd.
188 Awolowo Way,Ikeja Lagos-Nigeria.
Private Email Address : ekpelaw@yahoo.com
ekpelaw@hotmail.com

Dear Sir/Ma,
Private And Confidential.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of (Eleven Million, Seven Hundred Thousand
United states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers (Mr. Hughson Doucette) who died along with his entire family in an
auto crash in the year 2002. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir. We
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by
us for the
funds (Eleven Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United states Dollars) to be
released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order
of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following:

1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Your direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirement (s) will enable us file a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the
transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 3 Million Dollars on
final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share
stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes in
your country.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you.
I await your urgent email.

Please reply to me ASAP.

Regards,
Dr. Ekpe Lawrence.

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