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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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• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "petergreg11" <petergreg11@superbee.com.br>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:20:17 -0300
Subject: My Client

From the desk of:Mr.PETER GREG
Account Manager (Platinum Bank Limited )
Tele:(234)-1-471 9841
Reply to: petergreg12@hotmail.com

Head Office
Plot 707 Adeola Hopewell Street
PMB 80054, Victoria Island, Lagos
 
Dear
 
I am Mr.Peter Greg, Chief Accountant with PLATINUM BANK LTD (P.B.LTD) I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of ($18.5 Million United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer Allan ,who died in the Ikeja bomb blast of the January 27, 2002 .My client , who was involved in Ikeja bomb blast unfortunately for him lost his life in the process of the Bomb blast.
 
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to c laim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered his maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 50 % for you as foreign partner, 50 % for us the officials in my department .
 
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 50 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the tr ansfer can be made.
 
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.
 
I look forward to receiving your prompt response.Reply immediately to petergreg12@hotmail.com
 
Mr.Peter Greg
(Account Manager )
PLATINUM BANK LIMITED.

For confirmation, please refer to the links below:
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worald/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html

 

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