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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: "ndidi_emma emma" <ndidi_emma@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ndidi_emma@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:45:36 +0000
Subject: RE

Assistance Needed

(A.D.B) AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA.
>From Desk Of Ndidi Emmanuel
Lagos-Nigeria.
RC.27199

Dear Friend,

I am Ndidi Emmanuel, The manager, Bills and Exchange Foreign
Remittance Department A.D.B Nigeria Plc. I am writing
this letter to ask for your cooperation to carry out thisbusiness
opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of $22.5 m
(Twenty-two million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars only) in an
account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers [MR Magnate Andrea ] who died
along with his entire family of a wife and two children in July 31st
2000 in a Plane crash.Please visit the web-site for more enquiry on this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm



Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to
come over and put claims for his money as we cannot
release the fund from his account unless someone applies for it as
the next-of as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has
appeared to claim this fund. Based on this, I and other
officials in my department agreed to make business with you and
release it into your account as the next of kin .
This measure was resorted to in order not to return the fund to the bank's
treasury as unclaimed fund.

We have nontheless agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as
follow;25 % for you as foreign partner, 70 % for us the officials
in my department and 5 % for the settling all local and foreign
cost of handling during the course of this business.Upon
the successful completion of this project, I and one of my colleagues
will come over to your country for our share. It is from our 70 % we
shall import Agricultural Machineries into our country for resale.
For us to proceed, you will have to furnish us with your private
telephone and fax numbers, full names and address , your
designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transaction will
be effected.


Note, this transaction must be kept highly confidential as a result of its
nature.

Thanking you in anticipation of your understanding.
Ndidi Emmanuel (Mr.)

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