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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: chukwu_stb@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:22:52 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20URGENT=20REPLY=20IS=20NEEDED?=

STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC,
EASTER REGIONAL HEAD QUARTERS,
NO 50 WEST AVENUE LAGOS ISLAND
LAGOS STATE,
NIGERIA.

Dear Friend,

Iam the bank manager of standard trust bank nigeria plc.i will like to
a very brief business with you,there is a dormant account in my bank with
a credit balance of (USD$12.000.000.00)twelve
millionunited state dollars which has been dormant for about five yearsnow,on
my further investigation i disscovered that the owner of account is a foreigner(Mr
Tim Griag) who died five years ago in a motor accident along side his
wife and two children, coincidentally he shares the same surname with you
but left no information about his next of kin for the account because he
was hiding the source of
the money from the government.

what i need from you is to use your name as the beneficiary and next of
kin to the original account owner and then i will use my position as the
bank manger to giveclearance and onward remission of the fund into your
nominated account.i will supply you with all necessary information about
the account.which you will present to the bank through a lawyer, after the
bank has accepted your application then i will go ahead and destroy every
documents associated with this transaction and we will go ahead and share
the money at the ratio 20 and 70 %,25% for your services to me and 75% for
me, the remaining 5%will be set aside for any expenses incurred during this
transaction.

please your urgent reply is highly needed so as to stop futher
contacts.this is for people who know the value of banking system,kindly
include your telephone and fax numbers.
thanks,

best regard.
Mr clem chukwu.
YOU CAN REACH ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL:chukwu_stb1yahoo.co.uk



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