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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: "SILVER GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY" <williams@teamsilverglobal.com>
Reply-To: privatebox@box.az
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:33:23 +0000
Subject: TRUST

FROM THE DESK OF REV J WILLIAMS`
DIRECTOR OF SILVER GLOBAL SECURITY & FINANCE SERCES
NIGERIA LTD
16,PARK VIEW ESTATE IKOYI
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
PRIVATEMAIL: privatebox@box.az

Good day,

This mail is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form to you
but i must solicit your confidentiality, i know a proposal of this magnitude
will make anyone apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that it is
sent in good faith and will be of mutual benefit to both parties, I will
begin by introducing myself,I am REV J WILLIAMS the managing Director of
Silver Global Security & Finance Services Nigeria Ltd.I have the privilege
of having your contact on my quest for a trustworthy person,I am writing to
solicit your sincere co-operation in order to redeem an investment interest
currently being held under TRUST.

I have been working with this company for over sixteen years. Within this
period, I have observed and monitored how African Heads of State and
Government functionaries have been using SILVER GLOBAL SECURITY & FINANCE
CO.LTD/ECOBANK PLC to move sums of money (USD, Pounds Sterling, (cash) to
their foreign partners.They bring in these consignments of cash and secretly
declare the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds, precious stones, family
treasures, and documents etc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni
Abacha of Nigeria (dead),Mr Kenneth Giggs of united states, Savimbi the Late
President of Angola, Felix Houphet Boigny of Coted"Ivoire (dead) Charles
Taylor, Former President of Liberia Konan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan)
etc. All these people have many consignments deposited with my office. Their
foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most of these
consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as much as three
years.

Nobody have ever come for them because in most cases, the Certificate of
Deposit are never available to anybody except the depositors or me since
most of them are dead. I have through the instrumentality of Global Security
& Finance re-deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into
the Vault Facility of a reputable Security Company in EUROPE.Since the
Inception of the year 2000, our company's management has changed the
procedure of claims of consignment. As soon as you are able to produce the
secret information as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it
will be released to you upon demand. I have finalized every arrangement for
you to claim consignment Nos. 1401, 1402 containing $28.8M USD.I will supply
you with all the information and documents that will facilitate your easy
claim of the consignment.
All i require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I am willing
to give you a reasonable percentage (30%) of this money at the conclusion of
the transaction.


Furnish me with your contact TELEPHONE and FAX numbers as soon as possible.I
will be looking forward to doing business with you and I do solicit your
Confidentiality in this transaction.Please mail your Response and all other
Correspondence to me through my Confidential/Private email address below in
order for me to update you more on the plans as to how we intend to
actualize this transaction most successfully.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Best regards,

REV J WILLIAMS`
Managing Director Silver Global Security & Finance
Services Nigeria Ltd
PRIVATEMAIL: privatebox@box.az

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