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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: "Otun Adebayo" <otunadebayo@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:34:16 +0000
Subject: Information for Gabriel

Desk:Dr. Godwin Oboh
Standard Trust Bank Plc.
Lagos.West Africa.

My name is Dr. Godwin Oboh, i am the chief accountant of the lagos/
Apapa
bank branch of The Standard Trust Bank Plc. I was the personal
accountant to the Late Mr. Gabriel, who used to work with shell
development cooperation, a national of your country.
My client and his family died in an Air crash on 30th Jan 2001, my
client,
his wife and their two children were involved in the kenya airways
flight
with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to Lagos.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any
of
my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
I contacted you since i needed someone that will assist me in
repatriating
this fund into an account since the bank has given an ultimatum of
three
weeks for me to get the relative or make the fund unservicable and
from a
reliable source i have been made to understand that some top
government
officials are trying to divert the fund for their own selfish interest.
Hence i have decided to contact you as a foreigner so we can both carry
out this transaction together and put this fund in safety instead of
allowing the Government to confiscate it as an UNCLAIMED FUND because
his
account is worth 35Million Dollars in cash,Bond and Asset.
Will await your response to be able to give you further details on the
necessary processes we will be taking since every step we will take has
to
be done legally as i was his personal account before his death and i
possess all legal tender for claim. You can cantact me on my private
number if need be:+234-8027361832 or you can mail
me:drgodwinoboh007@yahoo.com
God Bless you.
Best Regards,
Dr Godwin Oboh

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