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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: "Lucuis Wote" <luwote1_1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lucuiswote11@o2.pl
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:35:58 +0000
Subject: Estate of Late Jeff Harrel

Estate of Late Jeff Harrel
From: Lucuis Wote Calucuis
Intercontinental Bank Nigeria PLC,
Lagos.


Dear,

With all due respect to your personality, 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 nor met each other before, but
because you and the Late Mr. Jeff Harrel 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 customer of our bank, Late Mr. Jeff Harrel,
who died in West Africa here and abandoned a fixed
deposit of Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars (USD $ 12.500.000.00), without
a specified next of kin to inherit the deposit at
the time of his death.(Maybe he did this because of
the fact that he was into crude oil deals called
"Oil bunckering" here in west Africa).

My name is Lucuis Wote Calucuis. I am an accountant
and the accounting officer to the Late Jeff Harrel in
the Inter-Continental Bank Nigeria PLC. (ICB).

In the financial Laws 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 funds after four (4) years of the
confirmation of the death of the depositor.

For the past four years, all the effort of our
Customer Service Department to trace any relative of the Late Mr.
Jeff Harrel has proved abortive.
I do not want this funds 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 of
President Olusegun Obansanjo.
2) To make you the Next of Kin to the late Mr. Jeff
Harrel and whom he has willed the said deposit before
his death.
3) To ensure that the deposited funds is transferred
to you as your INHERITANCE.
4) To ensure that my own share of it is invested
wisely in your country in any viable area of
investment.

Bear 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 proposition is acceptable by you, respond to
me ASAP but if not acceptable by you, do not take
advantage of it to betray me.

Remember that doing business over the Internet could
sometimes be unconfidential.

If acceptable by you, send me your private telephone
and fax numbers for me to call you for detailed
discussion.

God bless.

Lucuis Wote Calucuis.
(Accountant, ICB, Lagos).

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