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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: emekaduru22@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:00:32 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20=20REPLY?=


Yours Faithfully,
EMEKA DURU

Dear friend

I am an Account Officer with Union Bank Plc ,My name
is EMEKA DURU ,a Banker. I am the personal Account
Manager to Engineer.Teckon Amber a National of your
country, who was an expertrate contractor with Oil
servicing Firm here in Nigeria. Here in after shall be
referred to as my client,my client passed on as a
result of a heart attack. Since then I have made
several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
client's extended Relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate
any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge
deposits were lodged, particularly the Union Bank Plc
. Where the deceased had an account Valued at about
($6 Million US Dollars) has Issued me a notice to
provide the next of kin. Or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that
this account valued at ($ 6 Million US Dollars) can be
paid to you. The sharing modality is till open and
negociatable.All I require is your honest cooperation
to enable us see this businessl through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you, from any breach of
the law. Please get in touch with me by my email and
for more details regarding to this transaction.
My Priveta Email Address {emek44_duru@yahoo.com}

Yours Faithfully,
EMEKA DURU




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