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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: "Jacob Harry" <jacoharry@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:02:31 +0000
Subject: Urgent response needed please.

Hi Sterling,

I got your mail and that place you mentioned DOUBT and DUBIOUS makes me
fell so bad, i must have to confess.

You have been asking this question time without number and i told you that
the man who introduce you to me is an NNPC International Contractor, so he
made me to trust your kind of person, i think he met you during his visit to
Germany on a SEMINAR or someone who trusted you may introduce you to him.

I sent an email to the Remittance Department of CBN and Mr Samuel replied to
me saying that they have contacted you in regards of transfering the fund
into your account and that you should pay the some of 3,500 euros and they
gave you an option on how to transfer the fund into your account immediately
and uptill now they have not heard from you. So How much do you have? to
enable me work on the balance, please try and get back to the bank so that
the bank will experdite action immediately on your behalf so that we will
achieve our aim in less than no time please.


Moreso, i ask you to sign that ANALYSIS OF FUND TRANSFER OF FUND SCHEDULE
and return the document, you have to sign where they wrote Beneficiary
signature so that i will go to the bank and tender it so that they will
compute it in their computer database for the transfer.

please do get back to me immediately to enable me know the next step to
follow.

take care and remain blessed.

Dr Jacob Harry.

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