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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: "wisdom dozie" <wisdomdozie3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wisdom6@ny.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:32:46 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Attn:Sir,

I am pleased to send this email to you,l know this letter will definitely
come to you as a surprise.I am Mr.Wisdom Dozie of bills/exchange at the
foreign remittance department of STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC.

In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$9M.(Nine Million
United State Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer, who died along with his entire family in a Plane crash of Union
Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou Benin republic on december
25. in the year 2003. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because we can
not release it unless somebody applied for it as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Please read more stories about the crash on this website:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ or
http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/384/11653_Aircrash.html

Nobody has come forward to claim this money,It is based on this that some
officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial
business relationship with you hence my contacting you, We want to present
you as the next of kin or relation of the deceased, so that the funds can be
remitted into your account. I solicit for your honest assistance ,Moreover
we do not want the money to go into the Government Treasury account as
unclaimed bills.The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and
all money contained there in forfeited to the government treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an unclaimed fund . The reason for requesting you to
present yourself as the next of kin to the deceased is occasioned by the
fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account shall be 60% to me and my colleagues , 30% for your assistance and
participation, while 10% is set aside for every local and lnternational
expenses that may occur during the course of transfer. Therefore, you are
expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to
participate in this business after receiving your reply, you will be
communicated to with the exact steps to take.I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.

Looking Forward to hear from you soonest.

Regards,
Mr.Wisdom Dozie.

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