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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: "karim abdul" <karimbr@iconetworld.com>
Reply-To: karimad06@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:41:32 +0000
Subject: Urgent Responds

Dear friend,

My name is Mr.Karim Abdul, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange
Remittance Department LEAD BANK PLC formerly LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am
writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry
out this business opportunity in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars)
in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer (Neuweiler,Adrienne)
who was a petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum corporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip. He
died on board the Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Atlantic off
Nova Scotia in September 2nd 1998. The plane crash was in the news. See
links below for more detail information:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim this money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money or know that he has an account
with us. We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if
such money remained unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it would be
transferred into the BANK Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another officer and I
in the department now decided to transfer this money into your account as
the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody
is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into the bank
treasury as the unclaimed funds.

As a matter of urgency, I was mandated by my colleague to look for a foreign
partner who can cooperate with us for the transfer of the funds outside the
country. We have decided to give you 20% of the total sum. So if you are
willing to participate in this deal, do send to me,
1. Your Contact address:
2. Contact Telephone & fax Numbers for effective communication. We will do
our best to see that we conclude this transaction successfully on time.

I look forward to your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Mr.Karim Abdul.

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