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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: "International Trust Bank-Plc Fred Davison"
<freddavison@internationaltrustbank-plc.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:19:49 +0000
Subject: get back to me

International Trust Bank Plc.
ICON House, 6th Floor, Idejo Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria: E-mail:(email
address(freddave400@yahoo.co.uk)

Attn Sir/Madam,

My name is Fred Davidson, i am the managing director of International Trust
Bank Plc here in Nigeria, on 20th Novmber 2004 Mr. Peter Haryanto from
indonesia, deposited the sum of U$10million dollars with our bank here in
Nigeria, for sometime I didn't heard from him.

Not until when I received the sad news that there was a Natural
Disaster in tsunami in asia that killed thousands of indonesians,
including Mr.Haryanto(Our customer who I have mentioned above). Very sad
indeed.

Right now I am contacting you to know if you can assist me to receive the
money over there as a relative or next of kin of his, since all my effort to
locate his family with the telephone number he gave me (62853730612) proved
Abortive.

if you are willing to do this deal, you should not in any reason tell
anybody about this transaction until you confirm the money in your
account/home, because all we need is to get the document of (change of
onwership account from the federal high court) on your behalf.

Always rech me on my direct email address(freddave400@yahoo.co.uk)for
security reasons with

Waiting for your urgent reply now
Fred Davidson

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