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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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• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Ahmed Datti" <da4ahm@msn.com>
Reply-To: dattiahmed@gawab.com
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:56:02 +0000
Subject: HELP PLEASE

Sir/Ma,

HELP PLEASE

Please refer your acceptance mail for quick attention on this address:ahdatti44@yahoo.fr

My name is Mr. T. Ahmed Datti. I work with the inland bank of Nigeria plc as a group head treasury department.

In the discharge of my duty, I stumbled on this domiciliary account that has remained dormant for six months now with Twenty million, five hundred thousand United States dollars ($20.5m) in it.

On personal investigation, I discovered that the account holder died in auto crash accident with the members of his family who should be the next of kin to the amount.

Prior to the opening, I as the account officer advised that a next of kin be presented but he requested for OPEN MANDATE BENEFICIARY AND BASED ON AND I HAD NO OPTION THAN TO ACCEPT AS MY DUTY IS TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS AND NOT TO ASK THEM AWAY.

I am writing you so that we can work together to remit this money into your account as the next of kin hence the depositor happened to be a foreigner.

It is simple process, which will take a short while to process. Outside this, the bank management will return same as current asset or confiscate this amount of money as uncleared effects and send back to the Nigerian deposit insurance corporation account.

If I hear from you, I will tell you all you need to know about the money and the operational method we can use to effect the remittance into your account for our mutual benefit.

Best regards,

T. Ahmed Datti

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