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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: "Joseph Joseph" <joseph@gbn2.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:22:33 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal

Joseph Sankoh
Managing Director
Gulf Bank Nigeria Plc.
44, Broad Street,
Lagos, Nigeria

Attn: Sir/Madam

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS

I am Joseph Sankoh the managing director of Gulf Bank Of Nigeria Plc, banker
to the late head of state of Nigeria who died on June 8th 1998 under
mysterious circumstance.
I got your contract through commercial department of your country's embassy
in my search for a reliable and trustworthily person to handle this
top-secret transaction. You must therefore keep this transaction a VERY TOP
SECRET. THE SOURCE OF THE FUND The late dictator General Sanni Abacha
deposited the sum of $825.3 million U.S. Dollars in his private account
which I am the managing director, but with serious conferment in me that I
would never reveal this to anybody apart from his wife Mrs. Maryam Abacha..


Federal Republic of Nigeria Government vowed to continue with the
confiscation all private assets of the late president. And in this cause I
have declared $800 million United States Dollars to the Federal Government
of Nigeria as the family have no knowledge of the total amount deposited in
my bank. While I have transferred the balance of $25.3 million U.S. Dollars
to a subsidiary of Gulf Bank Plc.With the knowledge of three senior officers
of the bank But we cannot lay claims to this found due to our position in
the bank. We therefore solicit your assistance in transferring this amount
to your private or company account, as this transaction is risk free with
our involvement.

We thereby agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum while 75%
would be shared among us, the officials. The said amount was transferred to
SECURITY VAULT & FINANCE COMPANY IN ABROAD through diplomatic
immunities granted to banks in Nigeria and coded for security reasons to
avoid a re-occurrence of a past incident in London in which 1.6 Billion
Pounds Sterling belonging to the late dictator was seized.

If you have any positive response toward my proposal, please contact me
as soon as possible. May Allah help us

I look forward to your earliest response.

Joseph Sankoh.

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