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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: "ibrahim graba" <ibrahimgraba@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:28:38 +0000
Subject: Introduction

BANK LOCATION,
PLOT 27 MAIN MAKET,
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS.
MOBIL PHONE,
234-8034627677 OR FAX 234-1-774-9909.

 

Let me start first by introducing myself to you. I am Mr.Chiago ofoegbu, a manager with Eko Bank PLC Lagos,Nigeria. I came to know about you in my private searchfor a reliable person to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of my colleagues and myself. The Proposition:

Mr. Wolfgang Khan, a German and a prosperous oil merchant had a sum of eighteen million five hundred thousand United State Dollars (U.S. $18.5m) in a domiciliary account in our bank. From the information available to us here, his wife, Mrs. Helga Khan was his next of kin anunfortunately two of them died in the air crash of 25th July 2000 that involved Air France, Concord AF4590 in Gonesse, France. Efforts had been made by the management of my bank through the German embassy in Lagos to contact any of the children or relatives of Mr. Wolfgang Khan but to no avail. The bank is still unrelenting in its bid to contact any of the relatives to claim this money and in the event of nobody claiming the money, the bank will declare the account dormant and will be trading with it freely till eternity.

 

In order to avoid this and after these several unsuccessful attempts to contact any member of Mr. Khan's family, I decided to track Mr. Khan's last name and that of those he used as guarantors on the Internet to locate any member of his family or his guarantors and since you have the same last name as one of the guarantors, my colleagues and I decided to seek your permission to have you stands as a distant relative to Mr. Wolfgang Khan so that the funds would be released to you. All the documents and proofs to enable you to get these funds will be carefully worked
out.

 

Furthermore, the bank has secured from the court anorder of mandamus to locate any of the deceased relatives. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please do contact me and let me know about your
willingness.
 
Regards,

Chiago Ofoegbu

 

 

Eko Bank Plc.
Lagos, Nigeria

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