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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: "Bakura BJ Zamani" <bbar@123.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bakura@rediffmail.com
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:24:40 -0800
Subject: Business offer

Dear Sir/Ma,

PLEASE THIS IS NOT A SCAM OR ANYTHING RELATED TO IT, YOU ARE FREE TO ASK FOR MY IDENTIFICATIONS OR ANY EVIDENCE YOU MIGHT WANT TO HAVE.

I am The Bakura BJ Zamani, Am a senior advocate of Nigeria and I own a personal law firm here in Lagos and Abuja both in Nigeria, (TVS CHAMBERS)

I am writing you this mail as requested of me by my client whom I'm
sure if you know about Nigeria you will be familiar with the family name.

Well I send you this mal on behalf of my client the Abacha family, if
you read Nigeria stories you will find out that the American government return some millions of dollars belonging to the Abacha family but claimed to be looted by the present government, the Swiss bank also return the sum of 58miilion USD and some millions of Euro, this mail is to beg you to help us have this money transferred into your care as the beneficiary on my client behalf so that it cannot be traced and confiscated. The amount is 20million USD. Nobody know of this, but he need a person outside the region to help.

Please I have to tell you here that there is no risk in this as all legal aspect of this will be taken care of.

The account was open with a different name so that is why nobody can suspect my client son who owns the bank account, but due to the restriction of movement place on him and his family the only way out is to get a help.

I beg you to please reply me if you will help truly in this issue as
you stand to gain 20% of the whole money.

Do send me a reply to my personal box ( bakura@rediffmail.com) I will send you bank details when am sure that you want to help and not just to expose us.

I await your prompt reply.

All the best.

BJ.Zamani

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