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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: boladem@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:05:57 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear=20friend=2C?=

Dear friend,
I am Mr. BOLADE MANUEL, I am the personal Account
Manager to Late Engr (lesuni Pratner), who was a
director with JULIUS BERGER PLC in Nigeria. Here in
after shall be referred to as my client on 30 JAN
2000, my client, his wife, and their th ree children were involved in the
the Kenya airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed
from Nairobi to destination Lagos and they allfamily died in this fatal
air crash on 30 JAN 2000
Since then I have made several inquiries to his
embassy to locate Any of my clients extended
Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.


Before my Client died he had the sum of 32 million
dollars desposited with the STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC
which he kept in a fixed deposit After these several nsuccessful attempts
to locate
any of my client family members,

I decided to contact you as a foreginer in helping me in repatriating the
money (32million united states dollars} and property left behind Before
the bank get the fund confiscated
or declared unserviceable by my bank .His Bank has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin Or have
the account confiscated within the next fourteen
official working days.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
despsite the fact that i cannot come forth since the
company and the bank know me to be his personal
accountant Of the deceased since you is on the same
field so that the proceeds Of this account valued at
($32 million us dollars) can be paid to You and then
you and I Can share the money.

Thus the sharing formulae remain 30% for me 40% for investment in a jiont
venture company for both for both of us 20% for you 10% for unforeseen bottle
necks we might incur in this Transaction.

I also assure you personally that this transaction is
100% risk free as an attorney will be contracted to
help us revalidated and notarize all the necessary
legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
wemay make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal Through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. kindly reply to yhis
email;manuelb@keromail.com
Best regards

Mr. BOLADE MANUEL.




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