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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: "adeniran aderogba" <adeniranaderogba_12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: adeniranaderogba@caramail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:22:57 +0000
Subject: confirm

Dear Sir,

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, by virtue of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apperhensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr Adeniran
Aderogba,Executive Director, Investment Banking and Treasury,First Atlantic
Bank Plc. I came to know of you in my private search for reliable and
reputable person to handle this confidential transaction which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
confidence.

A foreigner, LATE ENGINNER JAMES HOWARD,an oil expertriate with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, untill his death a year ago in a ghastly air crash,
banked with us here at First Atlantic Bank Plc, Lagos, and
had a closing balance as at the end of March 2004 worth US$18M (EIGHTEEN
MILLION US DOLLARS).The bank now expectects the next of Kin to the deceased
to come forward and make cliams for the above sum. Efforts has been made to
get the relatives of the deceased ENG. JAMES HOWARD by my bank to no
avail.Based on this, the fund shall be decalred ‘UNCLAIMABLE’, hence my
proposal asking you to come forward and claim this money as the next of Kin
to the deceased.

All arrangements, shall be worked with with a lawyer who will make available
the relevant documents which my bank shall be requesting that you present to
them before payment will be effected.Kindly note that this transaction is
100% risk free and should be treated as such. Feel free to ask any question
you may deem necessary inoder for us to have a successful transaction. Upon
confirmation to handle this transaction, we shall discuss the sharing ratio
between all the parties involved. For the purpose of this transcation, i
would want you to send your reply to adeniranaderogba@caramail.com


Regards,

Mr Adeniran Aderogba,
Executive Director,
Investment Banking and Treasury,
First Atlantic Bank Plc.
234 802 723 7966.

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