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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: "Peter Okocha" <peter_okocha1@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:38:26 +0000
Subject: REQUEST (Kincaid)

MR.PETER OKOCHA
Account OFFICIAL OF INTER-CONTINENTAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
Email; peter.okocha@email.ro

Dear Kincaid,

My name is MR.PETER OKOCHA I work in the credit and accounts department
of Inter-continental Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in
respect of a foreign customer with our bank, before his sudden death. His
name is Mr.MARK KINCAID, He was among those who died in a plane crash here
in Nigeria in the year 2002 May 4th. Sir,since the demise of this our
customer, Mr.MARK KINCAID who was an oil erchant/contractor, I have kept a
close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has
come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.

He had only $9.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an
insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit
particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the
needed information other than my very self considering my position in
the bank as his account officer.Based on the reason that nobody has come
forward to claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your
cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send
these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between
myself and
you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have
removed the deposit file from the safe. By this doing,what is required of
you is to send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to
the deceased officially to the director of our bank.

I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the
processing of the transfer in your name and favour. Finally i want you
to understand that the request for a foreigneras the next of kin is
Occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that
reason alone a Nigerian cannot represent as next of kin. When you
contact me,then we shall discuss on how the money will be split between us.


I will direct you on how to apply for the claims of this money. Please
if you are interested and capable to carry out this deal with me, reply
through this -mail(peter.okocha@email.ro)

Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
MR.PETER OKOCHA

PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro
PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro



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