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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: "fedrick young" <fedrickyoung@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fedrickyoung@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:40:53 -0800
Subject: urgent reply

Mr. Fedrick young

haco bank plc

Postfach 3001
lagos,Nigeria


PRIVATE AND URGENT.



I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge
sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.



PROPOSITION:



We discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500,000.00
(Seven million five hundred thousand United States
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire
family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims for this
money as the heir. We cannot release the funds from
his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek
your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to
the deceased as all documentations will be carefully
worked out by us for the funds (US$7,500,000.00) to be
released in your favour as the beneficiary's
next-of-kin. It may interest you to know that we have
secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate
any of deceased beneficiaries.



Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following:



1. Name and address (to be used as the Beneficiary)

2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers (to contact you)



These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals in your favour before the transfer can be
made. We shall be compensating you with ONE MILLION
DOLLARS on final conclusion of this project, while THE
REST shall be for us for investment purposes. If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue
advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you.



I await your urgent response.





Regards,



Mr.Fedrick Young

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