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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: "Obi John" <obi_e104@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:15:25 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir,

Dear Sir ,

I Am Barrister Edward obi Solicitor, I am the Personal Attorney to Mr
Rotenberg a
national of your country who worked with shell development company in
Nigeria.

On the 2nd of August 2000 my client his wife And their only child were
involved in a car accident along Sagamu Express Road, All occupants of the
vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.

And my client deposited the sum of $6.5m with the Eco bank of Nigeria with
account number 0092106730, since I have tried to locate any of his relative
and all prove abortive I decided to contact any foreign partner abroad for
assistance so we can move the funds to his account for our sharing motive.

And any fund that has stayed up to four years without anybody coming forward
for the claim the bank is bound to confisticate the fund and take it to the
Government treasury account.

Because of this I now decided to contact you for assisting me in the
securing and receiving of the fund in your account so I can come over for
our sharing and also for my future investment with my own share in your
country.

Already as you can see I have every mandate/deposit certificate of my late
client Mr Rotenberg and that makes it easy for the money to be nominated to
anybody I can
front in to the bank as the next of kin.

Please feel free to revert back to me for more details regarding this
processing will be given you.

If you go through my proposal and feel to assist please forward to me your
Full
name and your Telephone number with your home address to enable me contact
you and please do keep this business secret until we actualize it.

I Wait to hearing from you soon.

Yours Truly

Barr Edward Obi Esq

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