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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: "Mark Kuku" <markkuku1@msn.com>
Reply-To: kukumark@nyc.com
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:59:36 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL


The Foreign Operations Dept.
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc
Head Office:Union Bank Building
Marina-Lagos,Nigera.
Telegrams: UNIONHEAD

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am Dr.Mark Kuku,a manager in the Bills and Exchange at theForeign
Remittance
Department of the
ECO INTERNATIONAL BANK I am writing this letter to ask for your support
and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen million United
States Dollars only) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of
a wife and two children in
November 1997 in a Plane crash.Since we heard of his death, we have been
expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the
heir,because 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.


Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has
everappeared
to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my
department have agreed to make
business with you and relea!se the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained
account
with our bank,otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury
as unclaimed fund.

We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;20 % for
you as foreign partner,75 % for us the officials in my department and 5
% for the settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us and
you during the course of this business.Upon the successful completion of
this
transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind
our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries
into my country as a way of recycling the fund.

To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone
number,
fax number full name and address and
your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for
necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature.I look forward to receiving your prompt response .

Regards,
Dr.Mark Kuku.

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