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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: "akaji jabura" <akaji_jabura@barcomonline.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:28:11 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Dear Friend,

Complement of the day.I am Dr.Omeno Okem, Credit Manager of the Standard
Trust bank Ltd here in the West Africa. I am the account officer of a
foreigner named Gerald Heaton who died in an air crash along with his wife
and children on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below which was
published by CNN :-
WEBSITE.http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html or
http://www.greatdreams.com/pass990.htm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May his soul
rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone
applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guideline you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by a lawyer for the funds Eight
million United States dollars (US$8,000,000.00) in a domiciliary account to
be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.Because after
six years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed
bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank.so it is on
this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
in/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share
this money among themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to
know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate
any of the deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavor by furnishing me with the following informations if you
are interested to help me in this deal .(a)Your private telephone , fax
numbers and email address For our personal contact,so as to enable me send
you vital informations as regards the releasing of this money to you as the
Next of Kin.I have agreed to share this money with you 60% for you and 40%
is for me.
Please,if you are willing to help me ,endeavor to contact me immediately for
proceeding and to successfully concluded as i earlier planned and without me
and you encountering any problem.

Please,endeavour to respond immediately via my personal email address
below:-odum_1000@yahoo.com

Thanks for your understanding.
Yours Faithfully,
DR.OMENO OKEM.

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