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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: "drfredobinna africa-developmentbank" <drfredobinna@a-b-bank.net>
Reply-To: fred_obinna202@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:06:00 +0000
Subject: Private Business Proposal

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA(A.D.B)
FROM DESK OF :DR.FRED OBINNA
Lagos-Nigeria.
RC.27199.

Attn:MD/C.E.O

Dear Sir,

STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I am Dr.Fred Obinna, The manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of African Development Bank of Nigeria PLC (A.D.B) I
am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry
out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned
sum of $15,000,000M US DOLLARS (15 million United States Dollars only)
in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with
his entire family of a wife and two children in November 2001 in a Plane
crash.


Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release
the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever
apeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials
in my department have agreed to make business with
you and release the total amount into your account since no one has came
for it or discovered
he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned
to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.

We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;20 % for
you as foreign partner, 75 % for us the officials in my department and 5 %
will be ducted the moment the funds in confirmed into your account for the
settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us and you
during the course of this business.

Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75 % we
intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone
number, fax number full name and address and your designated bank
coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate
departments
for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature.

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.

DR.FRED OBINNA.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA(A.D.B).

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