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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: "raymond chuks" <raymondchuks@msn.com>
Reply-To: barr_raymo@volja.net
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:41:14 +0000
Subject: URGENT CALL FOR ASSISTANCE

Barrister Raymond Chuks ,
Ray Chambers & associates,
Plot 103 kenny crescent
Ikeja Lagos

Dear friend,

I am Barrister Raymond Chuks of Ray Chambers and associates. I
am the financial lawyer to the late Mr Campbell J. Anthony from Nothern
Ireland, United kingdom. Mr Campbell J. Anthony was an oil merchant with
investment in the leading oil Africa. He invested in lifting oil from
Niger delta in Nigeria to other countries where he sales it. He was the
highest shareholder in Shell petroleum Bp in 1994. Mr Campbell J. Anthony
met his untimely death via motor accident in the 2002.I was contacted as
his lawyer by the board of director, shell Bp to look for the relative of
late Mr Campbell J. Anthony to enable them transfer the accumulated share
dividend of his investment with the security company. It is about two years
now. I made some research about the relatives of Mr Campbell J. Anthony and
discorvered through some DNA reports that some other two passengers in the
same plane happend to be his wife and only daughter Tonia Campbell Lansing
who also died along with him in the crash.

I am contacting you so that both of us can reach an agreement to enable
you act as his next of kin and claim the fund. Of course they will
believe me because I am his financial lawyer untill his death. and I
have all his business documents with me.I would have use someone from
here for the purppose but the fact that late Mr Campbell J. Anthony is a
white man made it impossible for me to present a black man as his next of
kin which of course, the security company will not honour.All the document
will be validated in your name and shall be drafted by me to include
your name in an application which be forwarded to the security company for
the claims. The money is just USD10.5Million dollars. I
will personally monitor the progress of the transaction as your
lawyer.After we suceed in claiming the money , we
will give some portion of the money to charity home in your country and
then share the remaining in the ratio 70% to 30% between you and me.
If you are willing to work with me in this regard,
please,response fast with the details

1) Your full name and contact address
2) your phone/fax lines

Thanks and God bless you.
Barrister Raymond Chuks
(SAN) (L.B Hons) B.L PhD

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