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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: fedmondbello1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:54:04 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LETTER=20OF=20INTENT?=

Dear Sir,

Please forgive me if I intrude your privacy, we do not know each other but
it does not matter. what matters is transperency between us in this deal.
I am Mr favor Edmond Bello an Accountant I came to know about you in my
private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidencial
business transaction. A foreigner, Late Engr Dahlig Michelle a Contractor
with the Federal Government Of until his death in Korean Air flight 801,which
Crashed in Guam on August 1997, banked with us here and had a closing balance
of US$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which the bank
unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available next of kin of
the late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for Arms and Ammunition at a Military War College here in Nigeria.

Valuable effort have been made by our bank to get in-touch with any of the
Michelle's family or relative but proved to no avail. it is because of the
perceived possiblity of not being able to locate any of the late Engr. Michelle's
next of kin that the management under the influence of our chairman and
Members Of The Boards Of Director that an arrangement be made for the funds
to be declared Unclaimable and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund
for Arms and Ammunition to further Enhance the course of war in Africa and
the World in General as you know that war will eventually bring destruction
to man kind. In order to avert this negative development, I now seek your
permissionto have you stand as the Next-Of-Kin Of . Engr Dahlig Michelle
so that the funds US$ 20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)
would be release and pay into your Bank Account as the Next Of Kin.

This is a deal between you and I only. All Documents and proofs to enable
you get this Fund will be carefully Worked out and more so I am, Assuring
you a 100% Risk Free Involvment in this deal. your share out of the $20.5m
depends on our agreement as we procceed with the deal. I will also like
to invest my own part of the money in your country with your help after
the transfer. If this Proposal is all right by you then kindly get back
to me by e-mailing me on my private email: fedmond2005@yahoo.fr thanking
you in anticipation of your co-operation.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Edmond Bello



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