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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: "paul nwosu" <paulnwosu1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: paulnwosu_1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:28:40 -0500
Subject: urgent reply needed

Greetings,

My name is paul Nwosu of credit and foreign bills of prudent bank Plc.I am
writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account
number14-255-2004/utb/t who perished in a plane crash (Korean Air Flight
801) with the whole passengers aboard on August 6, 2000.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with
keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as none
has come to claim his funds of usd.15.5M (Fifteen million five hundred
thousand united states dollars)which has been with my branch for a very
long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the
next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the
banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than eight years,
because money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after
this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after
realizing that your name and country is similar to the deceased. I will give
you 30% of the total amount.Upon the receipt of your response, I will send
you
by fax or e-mail the application, bank's fax number and the next step
to take.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for
fund transfer can be finalized within seven banking days, after you apply
to the bank as a relation to the deceased. When you receive this
letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail through my alternative email
paulnwosu_1@yahoo.com signifying your interest including your private
Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication and processing this
transaction.

Yours faithfully,

paul Nwosu



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