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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: "Barr Anderson Jaja" <justcynthia_jaja@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:56:17 +0100
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT!!

Dear Evert,

I know you will be suprised to hear from me having not met me before.May i plead with you to give this proposal an undivided attension.Let me use this opportunity to introduce myself as well as a business opportunity to you.I am Barr.Anderson Jaja,the legal advicer to an American physician DR GEORGE BRUMLEY who was a contractor with Shell Development Company in Nigeria.

  On August 10,2002, my client made a numberred time (fixed) deposit for twelve calender month valued at $9.8m(nine million and eight hundred thousand united state dollars) in BOND BANK NIGERIA PLC.Before maturity,my client and his entire family lost their precious lives in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa.You can visit the website below to see details.     http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

   Being his legal advicer,i am the custodian of his vital document here in Nigeria.The bank has sent a notification to me mandating me to provide the NEXT-OF-KIN to my late client to come and claim the  money or the money will  revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government.This is in accodance with the banking law in Nigeria which says that If the account owner is certified death and nobody comes forward to claim it,after four years,the money will revert to ownership of the Nigerian central bank.

   This is the situation here and my proposal is that i am asking you stand in as the NEXT-OF-KIN/BENEFICIARY to the fund.This is simple.All you have to do is to send immediately to my private email address,your full names,direct telephone number,Age and residendtial address so that i can call you and explain everything in details to you.You will provide an account where the money will be transferred to for us to share in the ratio to be decided by us.

   If you are interested,just send the peices of information i demanded above so that i can give  you  the text of the application that you will send to the Bond Bank authority for an approval to submit your claims.This business is risk free and please note that you are not to appear in person, as every thing regarding this project will be strictly on documentations and every document needed for this transaction will be taken care of by me.Please send your Reply to this email uprightchambers@yahoo.com as soon as possible so that i can take immediate action considering the fact that we are running out of time.I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours Faithfully,

Barr.Anderson Jaja

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