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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: "Mohammed Sanni Abacha" <sanniaba4@msn.com>
Reply-To: momoaba1@nyc.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:41:58 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

Dear Friend,


Firstly, I will crave your indulgence trust and confidentiality
before I introduce myself to you. My name is Alhaji Mohammed Abacha
the eldest son of late General Sanni Abacha.Who died unexpectedly
during his government.

Before my father died he deposited huge amount of dollar (
TWENTY FIVE MILLIONS DOLLARS) under security vault in European
Country. And this funds was kept for family investment without
Knowing that he will die unexpectedly. And since the death of my
Father, I was arrested and kept in prison for no reason and all my
Family account home and abroad was seized by the government of
Nigeria.

However, I was just released by the government after court judgment
with condition that I should not travel out of my state in Kano.
With this situation my mother now decide that we should solicit for
assistance from a foreigner who will be of assistance to the Abacha
family in other for him to claim this funds in Europe as a
beneficiary. My family have agreed to compensate any partner with 25% of
the sum and 5% will be kept aside for expenses while the remaining 705 will
be for us which we intend to invest on properties.
We assured you 100% risk free on this transaction and I want you to
treat this transaction very confidential till we conclude this
project. If you willing to assist us on this transaction get back to
me very fast so that I will instruct my lawyer to get you every
Documents involve.

I await your soonest response.

Regards,
Mohammed Abacha.


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