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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: ositachukwubueze@tiscali.it
Reply-To: ositachukwubueze@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:26:53 +0100
Subject: From:MR.OSITA CHUKWUBUEZE.

From:MR.OSITA CHUKWUBUEZE.
Email:ositachukwubueze@yahoo.fr
Dear Sir,
My name is MR.OSITA CHUKWUBUEZE.,the Manager Credit and Foreign Bills of
Ecobank Of Nigeria Plc.I am writting in respect of a foreign customer of
my bank with account number 14-255-2004/utb/t.Who died in a lane crash[ETHIOPIAN
AIRLINE FLIGHT 961] with other passengers aboaed.Sir, since the death of
this customer i personally have watched with keen interest to see the
Next of Kin,but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds of usd15.5m,{fifteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars
only} has been with my bank for a very long time.On this note i decided
to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has
come up to be the next of Kin.And the banking ethics here does not allow
such money to stay more than four years,becuase after four years the account
will be declared dormant and the money will be forfeted to the bank,in view
of this,i decided to contract you to act as the Next of Kin.

The request of a foreigner as the Next of Kin in this business is occasionid
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. i agreed that 30% of this
money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect of provding an account,while
the rest will be for me.
Thereafter i will vist your country for disbursement,therefore to facilitate
the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged,you must
apply first to the bank as a relation to the deceased indicating your bank
name,your bank account number,your private telephone number and fax number
for easy communication and location where the money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply,i will send you by fax or email the application
and the next step to take.i will not fall to bring to your notice that this
business is 100% HITCH FREE and that you should not entertain any fear as
the whole required arrangement has been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediatel through my email: ositachukwubueze@yahoo.fr
as soon as you receive this letter.trusting to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully
MR.OSITA CHUKWUBUEZE.
General Manager

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