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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: "williams aku" <williams_aku@msn.com>
Reply-To: williams_aku11@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:10:25 +0000
Subject: I REALLY NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

Dearest,

Compliment of the seasons, My Name is Williams AKU, the son of Late Ishaya
Mark Aku the former Minister of sport in Nigeria,I am 28-Year-Old-Nigerian
in possession of my Late dad's properties.I lost him in a plane crash During
his trip from a Sport Festival. Since his death, I have been incharge of his
business and properties and I have got no problem with that since I have
been doing that before his death. I received a letter from one of his bank
in Nigeria recently notifying me of a paymment worth eighteen million
Dollas($18,000-000-00)made into his account by a computer firm Named "IF
Computer GmbH Cecinastr" 37D-82205 Gilching Germany.

The money as I read is the Balance payment from a computer business he
engaged in with the Federal Government of Nigeria during the NIGHA
2002(NIGERIA/GHANA NATION'S CUP CO-HOST). As a result of this
notification I have written a letter through my Lawyer to the bank to
deposit the Money into a vault House in Europe, in which I have successfully
carried out in the last two month. Since I am his next of kin ,it was so
easy for me in doing this without the knowledge of my family members .

I want to try as much as possible to transfer his money out of this
Vault House before my family members got to know about this,because if they
know about it,it will be entitile to them as culture parmit,I know that this
issue is a very sensitive one and it should not be discuss on the net. Why
dont you send me your phone #and your Fax #, so that I will get in touch
with you .

This deal is a risk free one and your gain shall be 30% of this money
provided you co-operate with me.Remember not to tell anybody about this
because my daddy happens to be very popular person even after his death.

I will be very grateful if you can assist and both parties,you can get back
at me via this email address.

WILLIAMS AKU.

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