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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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Some comments about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • henrymacfib11@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: henry macpepple <henrymacfib11@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: henrymacfib@walla.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:02:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT LETTER FOR YOU!!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: henrymacfib11@yahoo.com

Dear Sir/ma,

It is my humble pleasure to write this letter irrespective of the fact that you do not know me. However, I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a confidential transaction of this nature in respect to our investment plans in real estate or any viable venture in your country. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.


Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Henry Macpepple, Accountant general of FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK Nig Plc, Lagos.

A foreigner, Late MORALES JUAN, a Civil Engineer/Contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria ,until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC ,Lagos, and Had a closing balance of USD$20M (Twenty Million, United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria.


Fervent valuable efforts made by the FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK to get in touch with any of late MORALES Juan’s next of kin (he had no known wife and children) have been unsuccessful. The management under the influence of our chairman and board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE” and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development , myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as late MORALES JUAN's next of kin so that the fund (USD$20M), Would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin through our overseas corresponding bank.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been

Carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involment.Your share would be 20% of the total amount. While the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purchase of properties and investment in your Country through you/your company.

If this proposal is OK by you, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and

E-mail, so I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Best Regards.

MR, Henry Macpepple.

Accountant general,

FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK Nig. Plc Lagos.







- henry macpepple

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