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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: "AKEEM AKHIGBE" <brr2_akakhigbe@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:11:35 +0000
Subject: RELATIVE NEXT OF KIN

Dear Sir / Madam,

My name is Barrister Akeem Akhigbe. I want to use this medium after going
through your profile to seek for your assistance in a business transaction
which is of mutual benefit.

A foreigner named late Mr.Adams RIDDERINKHOF who was an Oil
Merchant/Contractor with the Shell Petroleum Development Company until his
death in an ill fated plane crash UTA Flight 141 on Thursday 25th December,
2003 in Cotonou along the coast of West Africa, had a balance of
USD$27.5million with the Union Bank Plc and the bank now expects any of his
available next of kin to claim.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm

To this regard, I am contacting you being the lawyer to the deceased as I
have been directed by the Board of Trustees of the deceased bank to look for
the deceased next of kin, which I have done and found out that he has no
next of kin which means that these funds will be lost to the government.

In order to avert this development, I seek your indulgence to have you stand
as the deceased next of kin so that the funds will be subsequently
transferred and paid into your foreign account. On indicating your interest,
all documents and proofs to enable you get this funds will be carefully
sorted out and presented to you as a relative to the deceased. You will be
allowed to retain 50% of the total amount after the transaction. If this
proposal is okay by you, kindly contact me with this e-mail address to
enable me furnish you with relevant details to this transaction.

Your telephone number and Fax number would be necessary for effective
communication.

Best regards,
Akeem Akhigbe (Esq.)

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