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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: "MARIAM ABACHA" <marriama@terra.com.mx> (may be fake)
Reply-To: abbamarriam@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:37:00 +0000
Subject: FROM MARIAM

My Dear,

I am Mariam Abacha, widow to the former military head of state of NIGERIA,late
general Sani Abacha, who died suddenly as a result of cardiac arrest.

Note that he deposited US$20,000,000.00 (twenty million us dollars
only)in a private security company in(DAKAR)the capital of SENEGAL and the
consignment containing the fund was deposited by his personal assistance
who is also dead,Note that the consignment were deposited as containing
family valuables (family effects)for security reasons and the family intends
to invest the fund with you to enable the family to start life all over
again in your country.

I got your contact address from our chamber of commerce and industry office
in Lagos, Nigeria. If the proposal is acceptable to you, after getting the
consignment containing the fund out of the security company to your country,my
family have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for the assistance
you rendered to us and bank the family's own part of the funds and assist
us in investing it(with my approval)in a project and from there we can discuss
the way forward.

Please kindly reach me via this email address(abbamarriam@yahoo.co.uk),
for more details on the logistics and modalities on how to transfer the
fund.

Note: I do not need to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality
that this transaction demands. My son Abba will only be the one to tell
you whenever it is possible to talk to me. If you are not interested, please
kindly reply to me immediately to enable me to search for another interested
partner.

Best regards.

Mariam Abacha (Alhaja).
For the family.

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