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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: "charles smith" <charlessmith001@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:02:40 +0000
Subject: THANKS & REGARDS

Dear; Friend,
Grant me the indulgence of contacting you in this respect. I am Mr Charles
Smith.
I am the former Chief Accountant,Nigeria Railways Co-operation,during the
regin of former late ditector Head of state, Genaral Sani Abacha. I am
contacting to solicit your co-operation with a view to using you to apply
and claim for fund left behind in a security company overseas by my former
boss, who died on the 8th of June, 1998 .

It happens that it was only him, the late general and i who knows about the
deposit. Now that he is late, all effort to trace it has proved abortive by
the Federal Government, hence my recourse to you before the claim becomes
statute barred ( Limitation of action Law ) like the one in switzerland
banks which federal government has recovered, since i am the only living
soul who knows about it.

The amount of money deposited is estimated to be in the neighbourhood of
$200,000.000.00(Two hundred million USD dollars only) .More interesting the
security company does not know that what we deposited is money rather we
declared the vaults as family treasure made up of pices of old diamond and
gold.

Should you be willing to partner with me, kindly revert back to me proposing
your terms of co-operation, secondly we shall be meeting face to face in
one of the neighbouring countries to sign memoradum (MOU)ofunderstanding and
mode of compensation.
Please do contact me through my private email
address;charles_smith_2005@yahoo.com or you call me on my direct line 234 1
803
91 90303

Yours Faithfully

Mr Charles Smith, ACCA.

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