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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: malvis_usman05@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 05:35:59 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WITH=20TRUST=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E?=

From: The Manager,
International Commercial Bank Limited
First Light Branch
Lagos, Nigeria.

Dear Friend,

I got your very good name and e-mail address from the online classified
posted on the net.I have decided to contact you purely on the personal conviction
of trust and confidence that we can co-operate with one another and do a
very lucrative business for our mutual benefit. My name is MR Malvis Usman,
I am the manager of the International Commercial Bank Limited, First Light
Branch. I am a Ghanania married with four kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of uS$15,550.000.00.This
fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit
during last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the Year report
for the year 2005 to my Head Office here in Accra and they will never know
of this excess. I have since then placed this amount of US$15,550.000.00
on a SUSPENCE ACCOUNT without a beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money
thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money
into your bank account. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70%
shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk
involved.It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is
to stand as the original depositor of this fund.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response through
my private email address: malvis_usman05@yahoo.co.uk

With regards,

MR Malvis Usman





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