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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: "garus2005" <garus2005@superbee.com.br>
Reply-To: garus52@post.cz
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:37:40 -0300
Subject: Dear Friend

Dear Friend,

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I
am the manager Bills and Exchange of Foreign
Remittance Office of Equitorial Trust Bank Plc.  In
accordance with Federal Government Policies on
indeginization Law on company and Allied matters of
Jan 1972. I am writing you this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this
transaction.

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5 Million
(Twenty - Five Hundred  Million  U.S Dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our Foreign customer
who died along side his entire family on 21st of
April, 1999 in an auto crash along Lagos/Ibadan
Expressway.  Their bodies were kept in the mortuary
for five months to enable the Police carry out proper
investigation and possibly locate their surviving
relatives. They checked through all public files,
records and embassies and all efforts proved abortive.
 Since this development, we have advertised for his
next of kin or any close relative to come forward to
claim this money, but nobody came to apply for the
claim.

To this effect, I  have decided to look for a trusted
foreign partner who can stand in as the next of kin to
the deceased and claim this money.  A foreign partner
is required to apply for the claim because of the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and we don't want
this money to go into the Bank's Treasury as unclaimed
fund.

Every documentation shall be done in accordance with
the banking law and guidelines, So you have nothing to
worry about. As a matter of business, 35% of the money
will be for you, 5% for expenses incurred on both
parties while 60% will be for myself.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legal
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law. I await your immediate reply to enable us
start this transaction in earnest. Once I receive your
reponse indicating willingness to assist in the
realization of this transaction, I shall send you an
elaborate email explaining the procedure and
subsequently a Text of Application which you have to
send to the bank for immediate of claims of the funds.

I look forward to receiving your immediate response.
Have my best regards and God bless you. Do reply to my
alternative email address: garus52@post.cz .

Garuba Usman.

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