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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "james_mayaki" <james_mayaki@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:01:06 -0600
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION IS NEEDED


I am James Mayaki of Techie Bank Plc .I am the Accounts Manager to David,a
national of your country, who used to work with Philips Oil Explorations
Company here in Nigeria.

On the 21st of April 1998, my client, his wife and their only child were
involved in a car accident along Sagbama express road, KM 35 in which my
client and the whole family died. Since then,I have made conscientious
inquiries to locate any of my client's relations and this has proved
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track
his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family , hence
I contacted you since you have similar surname.

David died intestate leaving valuable properties as well as some money in
Techie Bank here. I have therefore, contacted you to cooperate with me to
claim the money. To Be precise, my deceased client had USD3.0m(Three
million, United States Dollars) in the bank account. I have necessary
information and documents to this deposit.

All we need to do is to move this money from his account to a bank account
to be nominated by you. To accomplish this purpose , you will act as my
client's next of kin With all the information at my disposal we will do all
the documentations.

Upon the completion of this transaction which will last few days , you will
be entitled to 40%(USD1,200,000) while I will take the balance. Reply
immediately so that the transfer will commence before the bank closes their
audit for the year.

Best regards,
James Mayaki
Accounts Manager
Techie bank plc

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