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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: "CLARA SMITH" <clarasmith101@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: clarasmith101@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:57:45 -0700
Subject: urgent reply

From: Clara Smith.

Field House,
Bream's Buildings,
London, EC4A 1PR.

Private Email:clarasmith101@walla.com


(Confidential Business Proposal)

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a lady accountant with a bank here in London.There is a fixed deposit of £150,000,000.00 (One Hundred

and Fifty Million Pounds Sterling) made to this bank since 1994 which ten years now and since then no clam

or withdrawal have been made on that deposit.Fortunately, I have been the person working the interest from

the day of deposit to date. The interesting part of it is that the
fixed deposit belongs to the late Nigerian dictator General SaniAbacha, this means that the account may have

been abandoned by the surviving family members or that they are not even aware of the existence of the

deposit.However, I just finished updating the interest of the deposit this January,and it has come up to

£10,500,000.00 at the 7%interest rate per annum.It is this interest that I am interested in because Iknow very

well that the family will care less on what happens to the interest if they want to redeem the deposit, they will

be interested on the mainmoney,that is if they are able to clam it at all because all the money lodged into

different banks here in Europe and United States are now been claimed by the Nigerian

government.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3333557.stm

Meanwhile, my plan is to withdraw just some amount from the ccumulated
interest, which will not even affect the main fixed deposit. I will give you the details of procedure and my full ID

when I receiveyour reply and indication of partner. Your reward and amount to withdraw will be our mutual

agreement to avoid any misunderstanding.We have noting to lose, we only need courage to do this.please

send your response to{clarasmith101@walla.com} For more confidentiality.

Your's Sincerely,

Mrs. Clara


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