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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "George Campbel" <george_campbel@msn.com>
Reply-To: george_campbel@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:00:38 +0000
Subject: ATTN:SIR

GEORGE AND GEORGE CHAMBERS 
45/46 NICON HOUSE Ste 4
LAGOS NIGERIA.
From the desk of: GEORGE CAMPBEL (ATTORNEY)
HEAD OF CHAMBER
Our Ref..Your Ref...Date 012-10-005

ATTENTION: SIR, 

I took it upon myself  to contact you after studying your profile; I want to apologize for reading your profile without informing you first. Well, I am a lawyer resident and practicing in LAGOS, NIGERIA and I am using this correspondence to urgently seek and
request your assistance and cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial
financial arrangement.

AN Important client of mine whose details I cannot release at this point has implored me to contact a reliable and trustworthy partner overseas to urgently receive and handle funds totaling SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US$7.5M) in CASH presently lodged in a security/finance outfit in LONDON (UK). Due to my client's inability
to travel out of the country presently and the fact that we continue
to accumulate huge debts daily as long as this consignment remains in
the security company we need a friend and partner to proceed as soon
as possible and retrieve this money on behalf of my clients and handle
it as duly instructed.

We intend to share this amount as follows: 65% for I
and my clients, 30% for your and 5% for any
contingencies. We expect this deal to be completed
within 14 (fourteen) working days, and all our
transaction shall be in accordance with the laws and
procedures on international remittance of fund.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation and hoping
to hear from you soon.

Yours' sincerely, 
GEORGE CAMPBEL  (ATTORNEY)

 

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