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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: "Peter Adams" <alsong.555@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: pet.lord@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:38:10 +0100
Subject: Hoping to hear from you soon.

Hello,

Good day to you. My name is Mr. Peter Adams; I work as an account officer
with a commercial bank in Nigeria. In my department, I discovered a
domiciliary account that has remained dormant for over five years now with
US$20.8 million in it. On my personal investigation, I found out that the
account belonged to one late Mr. Eric Doan, an oil merchant who died on the
16th of January 2001, from a ghastly motor accident.

I also found out after further investigations that since he died nobody have
come forward to claim this money. Now it has been unanimously agreed by the
chairman and members of the board of directors of my bank that the account
is frozen and the outstanding sum be transferred to the federal government
treasury account as unclaimed fund by the end of this month, if nobody
applies as the next of kin to claim it.

It is based on this I decided to establish a cordial business relationship
with you, hence by
contacting you. I will like to request your assistance as a foreigner and
also sharing the same surname in claiming this money by presenting you as
the next of kin to the late account owner.

I have in my possession all necessary information and documents needed to
back you up for this claim. All I require from you is your honest
co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I assure you that this
will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I
from any breach of the law.

If my proposal meets your interest, kindly send me your telephone number and
do keep this transaction secret and confidential in order not for it to get
truncated.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Mr. Peter Adams.

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