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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: "RICHARD BROWN" <richard_brown@uymail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:45:51 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

FROM RICHARD BROWN
NIGERIA AGRICULTURAL AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK.

Greetings

I want to transfer to an overseas A/C the sum of (46,000.000.00 USD) Forty six Million
United States Dollars) from my Bank here in Nigeria, I am reliably and honestly seeking your assistance
to handle this transaction with me . Your assisting bank account, to set up a new Bank A/C
immediately to receive this fund or an empty A/C can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest and confidential to me till the end of the transaction. But if you know that you can assist/interested in the deal,
I am trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am RICHARD BROWN, the branch Manager of NIGERIA AGRICULTURAL AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK
here in Nigeria. Now during the course of auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
my bank in the year 2000 and since then nobody has operated on this account again, after going through old files
I discovered that the owner of the account died without a next of kin who will be the beneficiary of this said fund.

The owner of this account is MR CHRIS MARCO, a foreigner, and an oil consultant with
SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY here in Nigeria and he died in an auto crash along
Port Harcourt – Abuja expressway, from my investigation no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary. Be informed that this fund can only be claimed
through a legal process and all the document are with me and shall be documented by both parties as
regards this transaction.

We will start the first transfer with Six Million [USD6, 000.000] upon successful transaction without any
disappointment from your side; we shall re-apply for the transfer of the remaining amount to your account.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together that you will never let me down in this business.

With my influence as the branch manager of the bank we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable
account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my
arrival to your country for sharing.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 65% will be for me, while 5% will
be for miscellaneous expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

Well you can E-mail through my private box: richard_brown@ureach.com

Looking forward and hoping to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

RICHARD BROWN

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