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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: williamsjohn@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:48 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Reply?=

FROM:Mr.Williams John
UNION BANK PLC
#24 Adeola Howell Street,
Victoria Island,
Lagos Nigeria.
TEL+234 8033885890
ATTN;jeff.vance
Compliments,

I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, I got your email
addressthrough the web while in search of who will carefully handle this
urgent and hitchfree deal.I am DrWilliams John a bank manager with UNION
BANK PLC Ojota branch Lagos, Nigeria. I am contacting you based on trust
and confidentiality that will be attached to this deal. The Management
and the Legal department of our BANK (UNION BANK PLC) in
a recent meeting recommended that one of my branch depositor (customer)
account Should be declare dormant and confiscate the deposited fund into
the Bank Treasury according to Nigerian Banking and Financial law. He is
a foreigner based in Nigeria,unfortunately he is late. He died on a fatal
plane crash 2years ago. He is an account holder in my branch, he owns a
dollars account with the sum of Thirty-two million eight hundred thousand
united state dollars ($32,800,000.00)deposited in the account.

In fact it happened that since his death, the next of kin of the dollar
account holder has not show up for the claim and since then nobody has
come up to make claim or to say he know anything about the deceased except
the attorney. To cut the matter short, the attorney has no contact of any
of the deceased elations.This is where I am interested on and this is where
I want you to come in. I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased,
I will give you the contact of the attorney,you will have to write to him
tell him you are a relation to the deceased and that you have found out
that Engr.Vincent Delse has account with Union bank plc which you wants
to lay claim through his legal uthority. He is going to be happy to assist
you. I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the claims of
the money .

Please include your telephone number when replying this mail and I will
give you more information as soon as you indicate your
willingness to assist in this transaction. After successful conclussion
of this transaction we shall share the money 60%/40%.

Yours truly,

DrWilliams John





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