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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: seseborobert2222k0@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:18:11 -0700
Subject: VERY CONFIDENTIAL MATTER

VERY CONFIDENTIAL MATTER
Please, Reply to :
seseborobert@yahoo.com
Dear Sir,

I am making this contact hoping that you will be willing and capable of
handling this proposal.I am Mr Sesebo Robert. , an accounts officer with
a private firm here in Nigeria. My company handles consultancy and seismographic
jobs for oil companies including Texaco, Shell and Conoco oil Companies.
The owner of this company is Mr. Manuel Lim,an Asian engineer who lived
and did business in Nigeria for over thirty years before his unfortunate
death in the
Kenyan Airbus off the coast of Abidjan while coming back from Dubai (UAE)
in the year 2000.After his death, we the staffs of his company made efforts
to trace his family without success because unfortunately he had no known
wife or child. The embassy was contacted to trace them but to no avail.

The insurance company that Kenyan company contacted to pay compensation
to the victims had the same problem so they had to pay the compensation
to our company. As the
accounts officer of this company I was opportune to have helped in his financial
transaction with his bank. At the time of his demise , he had an excess
of Fourteen Million United State Dollars (14 Million U$D)in his personal
deposit with African Development Bank of Nigeria plc(ADBN).
The ADB, has written several times on this issue but I told them to wait
that the next of kin of Mr. Lim next of kin is overseas and will contact
them. Presently,our company is about to fold because the money paid by Kenyan
airlines has been exhausted in paying salaries and
other expenses. I want you to assit us by presenting yourself as the next
of kin of Mr. Manuel Lim so that the bank will pay the money in your favor
into any account, which you will provide.
As soon as the money gets into your account, I will come over to your country
for sharing and to invest my part in any viable business with your assistance.
The mode of sharing will be 30% for you, 65% for us and 5% for expenses
and taxation. If you are interested and can handle this transaction, contact
me immediately through the email above as seseborobert@yahoo.com only for
the confidentiality of this transaction.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Sesebo Robert.

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