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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: "Walter Agi" <walteragi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: walagi66@excite.com
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 03:16:32 +0000
Subject: Letter

Walter Agi.
Manager, Internal Audit/
Foreign Remittance Dept,
Union Bank Plc,
36 Broad Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos.

Dear,

My name is Walter Agi, An account officer to late Mr. Craig Jones who use to
work for an oil firm in Nigeria. Mr Craig Jones a well known
Philanthropist,before he died, he made a WILL stating that $15.2M (Fifteen
million, two hundred thousand U.S. dollars only) should be donated to any
Philanthropist of our choice oversea and your email was randomly picked as
the beneficiary of the said funds.

I got your contact through our international trade commissiom and commerce
hence you can become beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested
in securing his money from the Bank, because they have issued a notice
instructing me being the account officer to produce the beneficiary of this
Will within few weeks or else the money will be credited to the Government
treasury as per law here. It is my utmost desire to execute the WILL of my
late client as was instructed when he was a life.

You are required to contact me immediately to start the process of sending
this money to any of your designated official account or your off-shore
account. I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in
mind that the Bank has given us a date limit,Please act fast.Please include
your phone and fax numbers as you are replying this mail.

Congratulation as I await your urgent reply.

Regards,

Walter Agi.

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