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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: "Robert Smith" <robertsmith_002@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:13:38 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Dear friend,

I am DR.ENGR. ROBERT SMITH from nigeria, in charge of Bills and Foreign
Exchange Remittance Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you
this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this
business opportunity in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $4Million (fourMillion Dollars) in an
account belonging to one of our a foreign customer(Neuweiler, Adrienne) who
was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip.

He died with his wife (Christine Adrienne) on board the Swissair Flight 111
, which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The
plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.We cannot release this money
unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased.
Our banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for
a period of eight (8) years, it would be transferred into the MERCHANT BANK
Treasury as unclaimed fund.

Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer this money
into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy
collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go
back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out
this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country. We have
decided to give you 15% of the total sum. So please, as a matter of urgency
send to me,

1.Your Contact address:

2.Contact Telephone & fax Numbers:

For effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can
explain the details to you to understand everything about this business.

write to this email address:robertsmith_002@hotmail.com

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.

DR.ENGR.ROBERT SMITH.

YOU CAN CONTACT ME ON MY MOBILE NUMBER IF NEEDED:234806718011

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