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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: "Felix Uka" <felix_uka2000@tiscali.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: felix_uka2000@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 11:10:26 +0100
Subject: Copy Me (Very Urgent)

From the Desk of:
Mr.Felix Uka
Manager{Commercial Banking (South)}
Orient Bank Plc, Nigeria.
E-mail :felix_uka2000@yahoo.com

Dear Friend,
My name is Mr.Felix Uka {Commercial Banking(South)} with Orient Bank
Plc,Nigeria. Lagos-Nigeria.I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable
person/company to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of my Colleagues and
myself.l write in respect of a foreign customer with A/C
number:BA0581380660001,who unfortunately lost his life in
the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January
31,2000, including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the
money.You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this
site;http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ .The owner
of this account was Mr.Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident
of Alaska.Since the death of this our customer Mr.Morris Thompson, I
have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since
then.Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as
next of kin to the late Mr.Morris Thompson. The total
amount in the account US$9.7 million and it is a
domiciliary escrow bank account.It is only
an insider,the account owner or a next of kin who has
information about the account that could produce the Code or password
of the deposit particulars. Also the funds can only be released to a
foreigner.As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to
produce the needed information other than my very
self-considering my position in the bank.Based on the fact that Mr.
Morris Thompson's family perished in the same flight accident, leaving no one
to put claim of the deposit as the next of kin,so I am seeking for your
co-operation to present you as the next of kin to late Mr.Morris
Thompson,and arrange for the release of the funds to your honour for our mutual
benefit.If there is more delay in moving this money out, this
money will be pushed to the Treasury of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of
60 -30%. You shall have 30% and %10 of the funds shall be for any
incurred expenses and I shall share the rest with my
partner at the bank.I hope this is a fair sharing?
I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we
can proceed accordingly.Kindly forward your urgent response
to this my private e-mail { felix_uka2000@yahoo.com }
Thanks and best Regards.
Mr.Felix Uka
{Commercial Banking (South)}.

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