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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: VICTOR BERNARD <vic4bern@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: vicbern4success@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 01:17:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY.


Sir,
I am Mr. Victor Bernard the Operation Manager of United Bank for Africa Plc (U.B.A). There is an account opened in this bank in 1985 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records i discovered that if i do not remitt this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Clayton Riedfield and the manager of Granite Minning Nig, who died since 1995. the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proves to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount invloved is (USD 26,000,000.00). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to any local bank here but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in U.S Dollars and the former owner of the account is Mr. Clayton Riedfield and he was a foreigner too.
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business, you are the only person i have contacted for this business for now, so please reply urgently.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a foreign account as the next of kin to the late MR. CLAYTON RIEDFEILD. I need your co-operation to make this work fine, because the management of my bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information to this account, which i will give to you when i am sure of your capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust, according to my instructions and my advice for our mutual benefit because i don't want to make any mistake. I need your strong assurance and trust and i shall destroyed all document concerning to this transactions immediately we received this money living no trace to any place. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% out of the total amount, 65% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses , both parties might incurre during the process of this transaction.
I look forward to your earliest reply .
Yours Truly,

Mr Victor Bernard.



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