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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: "PHILLIP JAMES" <phillipjames0_20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: phillipjames020@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:20:28 -0900
Subject: Next of kin

FORM: Mr PHILLIP JAMES

Dear,SIR

My name is Mr Phillip James, I work in the bank. I write you in respect of a
foreign customer with Domicilliary A/C number 6402356789. His name is
Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He was among those who died in a plane crash
here in Nigeria during the reign of late General Sani Abacha.

Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Joseph Schultzman, who
was an oil merchant/contractor,I have kept a close watch of the deposit
records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in
this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only $38.5mllion in his
a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code
or password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now, there is nobody in
that position to produce the needed information other than my very self
considering my
position in the bank.

Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the
only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from
the safe .By this doing, what is required of you is to send and application
laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer.

I will need your full name and address, company or esidential, so that i can
computerize them to tally with next of kin olumn in the certificate of
deposit. Finally i want you to nderstand that the request for a foreigner as
the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of
kin. When you contact me then we shall discuss on how the money will be
split between us.

Trusting to hear from you, I remain
Respectfully yours,

Mr Phillip James.

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