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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: "sam dagogo" <samdagogo@dagogo.net>
Reply-To: sbcdagogo@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:45:23 +0000
Subject: INTENT.

Dear friend,

I am Sam Dagogo staff of Fleet International Bank
of Nigeria Lagos - Nigeria.

I am contacting you for a business that involves an amount of money from a
dormant deposit account that belonged to a foreign contractor with the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.The former account holder Late Mr.
Mario S. McMicheal, died in an auto crash along with his wife on the 31st
October 2003.

All efforts to locate his extended relations has proved abortive as he did
not indicate such in all the official documents he tendered to the bank.

The MoneyUS$4,900,000.00 is about to be reverted back to
the Bank's treasury, hence I solicit for your assistance/permission to
process all requisite documents in your favour as his legitimate next of
kin/beneficiary to enable transfer of this money into your account.

All arrangement to legally esterblish the claim will be handled by us.

The fund will be shared 30% for you, 70% for me and my
colleagues.

Our duty is to move this funds from the bank here and your integrity to
safeguard it counts.

This transaction is risk free on your part, strictly
private and must be treated with utmost confidentiality for security
reasons.

You may reply me attaching your mailing address and telephone number for the
lawyer to commence process.

Yours Cordially,

Sam Dagogo.

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