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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: "peter uju" <peteruju@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peteruju@katamail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:21:24 +0000
Subject: Urgent!Urgent!!Urgent!!!

Dear Friend

My name is Mr Peter Uju.Iam the personal Account Manager to a foreigner,Late
Engr.Frank , who used to work with Shell Development Oil company in
Nigeria.However,i have
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by Mr Frank
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable where this huge
deposits were lodged,particularly
our bank where the deceased had an account valued at $25.5Million(twenty
five million,five hundred thousand united states dollars),the bank has
issued me an urgent notice today to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next ten banking days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now,after all my
attemps I seek your consent
today to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the
proceeds of this account valued at ($25.5 Million USdollars) will be paid
out to you,and avoid being confisticated. After the
tranaction you will retain 40% of the total funds and hand over the 60% to
me in good faith.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.

Looking foward to hear from you.

Best regards

Mr Peter Uju

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