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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: "michael njoku" <michael_njoku@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:23:24 +0200
Subject: TRANSFER

Attn: Sir,

Am Dr,Michael Njoku,Director of accounts and transfer,Firstrand Bank South
Africa.I wish to request your aid in the transfer of 64,400,000 million US$
to your account.Our bank rule states that any account that has remained
dormant for five years without operation will be confiscated.So due to this
fact,

I want to transfer the money that belongs to Dr Author Woodrow to your
account before it gets confiscated.I was the accounts officer to Dr. Woodrow
who was the Executive director of Author & Author coy (PTY) South Africa.He
died in University Teaching Hospital South Africa on 30th August 1999 and
since then his account has remained dormant As his accounts officer i have
tried all possible means to contact his relatives but all my efforts were to
no avail.And this money will be confiscated in no distant time from now.That
is why i decided to transfer the money out of the bank instead of leaving it
for the bank to confiscate it.

I contacted you after a vigorous search for a trustful and reputable person
who i can confide in for this important business due to the great need to
involve a foreigner who will act and receive this fund in his account.

I assure you that all the documents the bank will require from you will be
provided to you.And i will be in the bank as an insider to facilitate the
success of the transfer. I assure you that this transaction is trouble free
because i work in the same bank where the money lies.At the end of the
transfer i will take 60%,you take 35% while we keep 5% aside for any expence
we might have inccured in the course of the transfer.

Please i will be glad if you get back to me faster so that we can procede
because i have only two weeks to transfer this money before its confiscated.

Expect to hear from you soon

Regars

Dr,Michael Njoku

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