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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: "OKI AHMED" <oki_ahmed1@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:31:33 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL !!!

Dear sir,

With due respect to your person, I request that you do not feel
disturbed as I know that business of this magnitude will surely
make one apprehensive.

I write to solicit your utmost confidence,knowing too well that we
have neither known or met each other before,but because you and the
late customer are from the same country.Having searched through the
internet, from where i got your email address,I hereby request that
you become the next of kin to the late Alexander Wohl of our bank,
late Alexander Wohl , who died here in West Africa and abandoned a
fixed deposit of twenty two million Five hundred thousand United
States Dollars($22,500,000.00) without a specified Next of Kin to
inherit the deposit as at the time of his death.(may be he did this
because of the fact that he was into crude oil deals called "oil
bunkering" here in west Africa).

My name is Oki Ahmed.I am an accountant and the accounting officer
to the Late Alexander Wohl in the UBA NIGERIA PLC (UNITED BANK FOR
AFRICA PLC)
In the financial law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the
Holding bank is required to repatriate any abandoned fund by a
foreigner if nobody comes to claim the said fund after four (4)
years of the confirmation of the death of the depositor.

For the past four years, all efforts of our customer service
Department to trace any relative of the Alexander Wohl has proved
abortive.I do not want this fund to go into the hands of our
corrupt government officials,who have embezzled our national funds
all these years.
My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:

1)To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the
corrupt government officials.
2)To make you the next of kin to the late Alexander Wohl and whom
He has willed the said deposit before his death.
3)To ensure that the deposited funds is transfered to you as your
INHERITANCE.
4)To ensure that my own share is invested wisely in your country in
any viable area of investment.

Bearing in mind that the entire transaction will be risk free and
legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as your
INHERITANCE.if this proposal is accepted by you.Respond to me ASAP
but if not accepted by you ,do not take advantage of it to betray
me.

Remember that doing Business over the Internet could sometimes be
unconfidential.so if acceptable by you,send me your private
telephone and fax numbers for me to call you for more details.You
can reach me on :oki_ahmed@88.am

God Bless

Oki Ahmed
oki_ahmed@88.am
(Accountant,UBA PLC,Lagos).

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