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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: "Robin Hans Clark" <emma7@mail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:48:06 -1200
Subject: MR,ROBIN

Greetings,

I am mr.Robin Hans Clark the account officer Fountain Trust
Bank Plc. I have an urgent and very confidential business
proposition for you. On June 6, 1997, a British Foreign Oil
consultant/contractor with the NATIONAL PETROLUEM
CO-OPORATION MR. ALLEN SMITH.Made a numbered
time (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at
US$21,320,000.00 (Twenty ONE Million Three hundred and
twenty Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity in
2000, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered
from his contract employers, the National petroleum
corporation that MR. ALLEN SMITH died of auto crash during
one of his trips to his country America. On further
investigation.I found out that he died without making a
WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and
discovered that MR. ALLEN SMITH. Did not declare any next of
kin or relation in all his official documents, including
his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$21,320,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed
since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives
have hit the stones.According to the banking law at the
expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to the
ownership of the federal Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund and the eight years is the end of December
2005.Consequently, my proposal is
that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in
as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased
so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated
account. All documents and proves to enable you get this
fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the
probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries, and more so I
are assuring you that the business is risk free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest be for me and for
investmentpurpose as I will leave my country by the end of
the year.

The sharing of the funds will be based According to
agreement between {both of us} that is, me and you. As soon
as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message
in acceptance of our mutual business proposal,I will
furnish you with the necessary modalities and disbursement
ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage
of the trust I have bestowed in you.

PLEASE, APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE
INTERNET IS RISK.ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR

CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR
REPLY TO THIS BUSINESS.

God Bless you.

Mr.Robin Hans Clark

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