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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • tundetafa2006@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "tafa tafa" <tafa@tafaa.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:25:37 +0000
Subject: please reply

Dear Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet
your personal ethics. I will introduce myself as tunde tafe
Melete, a staff in the accounts management section of a
well-known bank here in NIGERIA. One of our
accounts with holding balance of $10,000,000(TEN MILLION DOLLARS)
has been dormant and has not been
operated for the past 5 years.

>From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this
account a foreigner by name Austin Martins died in August
2000 and since then nobody has done anything as regards the
claiming of this money because he has no family members who
are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the
funds. Also Information from the National Immigration
states that he was also single on entry into the NIGERIA

I have secretly discussed this matter with some of the bank
officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign
partner to deal with. We thus propose to do business with
you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the
deceased and funds released to you after due processes have
been followed. This transaction is totally free of risk and
troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate
from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal
act. On your interest, let me hear from you.

Regards,
Dr tunde tafa

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Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception
of Communications) Regulations 2000. Please reply through
this email :tundetafa2006@yahoo.co.uk

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