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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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  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:34:27 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I_Need_Your_Assistance?=


Dearest one,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture, which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not meet with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life.

There is this amount of Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand US. Dollars (15.500 000,00) which my late husband Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, Former Senate President Federal Republic of Nigeria, kept for me and my son David Uchenna. Okadigbo, with a finance house Funds before his death on September 25, 2003. And this Money is still lodged with Finance House, and the Management with board of directors just wrote me as the beneficiary’s to come forward to receive the fund after having kept if for so long with their coffers but the problem is that my husbands wife will not like to see me receiving this fund.

Now I have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside for security and political reasons. I want you to help me claim and retrieve these funds from the Finance House Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:-

(i) Telecommunications, (ii) Transport Industry, (iii) Five Star Hotel, or Real Estate,

If you can be assistance to me i will be pleased to offer to you good % of the total fund. I will need the below information to enable me forward it to my bank so that they will contact you immediately:-

1) Your complete names:--------------- (2) house address:---------- (3) Company name if any:---------( 4) Private telephone number:---------- (5) Private fax number:-------
(6) Private email address:-------------------(7) Your brief profile:------------------ (8) Your Photograph:---------------------- (9) Your bank account:----------------

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Margery Okadigbo


---------------------- ALICE N°1 de la RELATION CLIENT 2008*--------------------
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