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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: somtochukwub@terra.com.mx
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:28:38 -0700
Subject: FROM MR BRIGHT

FROM THE DESK OF MR.BRIGHT SOMTOCHUKWU ,MANAGER
ACB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC
LAGOS NIGERIA.
Attention,
SIR,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being
utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to
you. I am MR.BRIGHT SOMTOCHUKWU Manager with the
ACB INTERNATIONAL BANK NIGERIA PLC . Lagos. I came to
know of you in my private search for a reliable and
reputable person to handle this confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum
of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
confidence.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, Late Engineer JOHNSON KNOX , an Oil
Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, until his death seven years ago in a ghastly
air crash, banked with us here at ACB INTERNATIONAL BANK
PLC
, and had a closing balance of US$38.5M
(Thirty Eight Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any
available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary
or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college
here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being
made by the ACB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC to get in touch
with
any of the MR KNOX family or relatives but proved to
avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not
being able to locate any of Late Engr JOHNSON KNOX
next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that
the management under the influence of our chairman and
member of the board of directors, that an arrangement
be made for the funds to be declared UNCLAIMABLE and
subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and
Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in
Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, some of
my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.
JOHNSON KNOX so that the funds US$38.5M would be
released and paid into your bank account as the
beneficiary¡¯s next-of-kin. All documents and proves
to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked
out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk
free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest would be for my
colleagues and myself for investment purposes in your
country.
If this proposal is OK by you,then kindly get to me
immediately via the above e-mail address.: somtochukwub@yahoo.ca

Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I
can use these information to apply for the release and
subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
MR.BRIGHT SOMTOCHUKWU.
MANAGER, ACB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC


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