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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: "Juanita Peoples" <talk2heritage@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wemabank-plc@FINANCEFAN.NET
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:00:02 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
Switzerland
Date : 2005-06-12

>From the desk of: Ms. Juanita Peoples

Dear Sir\Madam

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

We happily announce to you the draw of African/Nigeria 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199 with ! Serial
number 97560 drew the winning: 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you
the lottery award in the 2nd category. Your name have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of US$50, 000.00 (Fifty thousand United States
Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03 .This is from a total
cash prize of US $ 30,000,000.00 (Thirty million United States dollars)
shared among the first 200 lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet
representative office in Nigeria as indicated in the play coupon. In view of
this, your US $50, 000(Fifty thousand United States Dollars ) would be
released to you through the assistance of our agent in Nigeria immediately
he commences the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as
you contact him. Also your claim included with free flight ticket and one
month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotels. All participants
were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system
and extracted from over 100, 000, 000 companies and individual email
addresses.

The lottery programe took place to promote Africa/Nigeria's 2010 world cup
award. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims are processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is
part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.Please you are advised
to file for your claim immediately through our agent Wema Bank of Nigeria
(Mr.Yinka Adegbite) you received this message because you stand a risk of
loosing the prize if you fail to claim within a month from the day you
received this notification. Below is the contact information of
representative in Nigeria, endeavour to contact im soonest.

Mr.Yinka Adegbite
Wema Bank of Nigeria Plc
Email: wemabank-plc@FINANCEFAN.NET

Yours sincerely,
Ms. Juanita Peoples
[Administration Officer]

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