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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a next of kin / dead customer scam (11 typical phrases found).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Ade Williams" <adewilliamsuks@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:55:51 -0300
Subject: FROM ADE WILLIAMS/URGENTION ATTENTION

ADEWILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES
117 ADE ROAD LAGOS NIGERIA.
TEL: 234 1 759781

 Dear Sir,

I am Barrister Ade Williams, a legal Solicitor and I was
the Personal Attorney and legal adviser to MR.John Bales ,
a national of your country, who used to work with Mobil oil
Company Nigeria Plc. On the 21st of August 2000, my
client,his wife and their three children were involved in a
car accident along Sagamu Express Road. All occupants of
the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any
of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate
any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted
you.

 I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money
and property left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where
these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the bank
where the deceased had a deposit valued at about Ten
Million United States Dollars($U.S10,000,000) has issued me
a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for over two years now.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of
the deceased Since you are from the same country so that
the proceeds of this account valued at Ten Million United
States Dollars ($U.S10,000,000) can be paid to you and then
you and me can share the money. 65% to me and 25% to
you,while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your
Government may require, I have all necessary legal
documents that can be used to back up any claim we may
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.
 

Best regards,
Barrister Ade Williams
 

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