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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: "Alhaji Adamu" <alh_mohammed_ad@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adamumohammed22@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:55:26 -0700
Subject: INVESTMENT [Notification]

FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER ADAMU MOHAMMED
LLB. (HONS) MA. DIPL. LAW
E-mail:adamumohammed22@yahoo.com


CONFIDENTIAL

ATTENTION PLS,

MY NAME IS BARRISTER ADAMU MOHAMMED, I AM A PRIVATE
ATTORNEY AND I HAVE A CLIENT WHO IS INTERESTED IN
INVESTING SOME GOOD MONEY IN YOUR COMPANY.

MY CLIENT IS A VERY IMPORTANT AND PROMINENT PERSON
WHO HAS MANDATED ME TO CONTACT YOU OR YOUR COMPANY
FOR A VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION. MY CLIENT IS BY
NAME MRS. MARYAM ABACHA AND SHE IS THE WIFE OF A LATE
MILITARY HEAD OF STATE IN MY COUNTRY.

HER HUSBAND LATE GENERAL SANNI ABACHA MADE A LOT OF
MONEY THROUGH OIL PROCEEDS DURING HIS TENURE IN
OFFICE. INFACT, IT WAS DISCOVERED AFTER HIS DEATH
THAT HE WAS WORTH WELL OVER $4.5 BILLION UNITED
STATES DOLLARS AND SOME OF THIS MONEY WAS RETRIEVED AFTER
HE DIED WHILE SOME WAS RECOVERED FROM OFFICIALS THAT
SERVED UNDER HIM DURING HIS REIGN AS PRESIDENT OF
NIGERIA.

THE TRUTH OF THIS CASE IS THAT MY CLIENT DESPITE THE
PROBLEM SHE IS GOING THROUGH NOW, SHE STILL HAS A LOT
OF MONEY IN HER POSSESSION. WHICH SHE INTENDS TO
INVEST OUTSIDE OUR COUNTRY.

WHAT MY CLIENT NEEDS FROM YOU NOW IS A RELIABLE
ACCOUNT WHERE SHE CAN TRANSFER SOME MONEY BUT MIND
YOU, ALL THE MONEY IN HER POSSESSION CAN NOT LEAVE AT
ONCE BECAUSE SHE NEEDS TO BUILD CONFIDENCE AND
TRUST IN SOMEONE WHO WOULD NOT EXPOSE HER PLAN TO REMIT
AND POSSIBLY INVEST IN YOUR COMPANY. SO SHE HAS AGREED
THAT I SHOULD MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF
$45.5 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS AND YOU ARE FREE
TO NEGOTIATE YOUR MODE OF COMPENSATION EVEN IF SHE
INTENDS TO INVEST THE MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY.

PLEASE, DO NOT HESITATE TO INDICATE YOUR VIEW OF THIS
REQUEST BY CONTACTING ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE
THIS MAIL, SO THAT THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE
MADE FOR THE MONEY TO LEAVE FROM THE SECURITY COMPANY
IMMEDIATELY.

DUE TO THE PRESENT SITUATION OF MY CLIENT, I WOULD BE
HAPPY IF THIS REQUEST CAN BE KEPT A SECRET. I WOULD
ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED.


I HOPE MY CLIENT WOULD BE HAPPY INVESTING WITH YOU.
PLEASE KINDLY SEND DOWN YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX FOR
ORAL DISCUSSION AND YOUR HOME ADDRESS FOR THE DOCUMENTATION THAT WILL
EMPOWER
YOU TO RECEIVE THE FUNDS/CONSIGNMENT FROM THE SECURITY COMPANY THROUGH
MY
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE.



THANKS,

ADAMU.





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