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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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• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "FRANK ILOH" <fra4loh44@msn.com>
Reply-To: fran4loh@excite.com
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:32:06 +0000
Subject: IMMEDIATE AND SINCERE DEMAND

Dear Friend,
IMMEDIATE  AND SINCERE DEMAND

You response through this mailing address fran4loh@yahoo.fr for immediate answer

First may I ask you to take your time to go over this mail carefully and with patience. Please, may I here request that the assistance needed is very urgent and for ease of reference. 

I am Dr Frank Iloh a Senior Personal Assistant  to the first lady of the Federal republic of Nigeria who died on the 22nd, October,2005 in a USP Hospital of Marbella after undergoing surgical operation at Molding Clinic www.bbc.co.uk/africalives/myafrica/blogs/005017/

Shortly before her death at USP Hospital of Marbella the First Lady,Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo kept with me a very huge amount of money to be transfered to an off-shore Security Company abroad.

In any case details of the trunk has not been recorded before the news of her death got to me. I then deposited the trunk with the Security/Trust firm abroad USING CODE but contents still undeclared. The amount involved is US$20.5m (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

I need your urgent assistance in the completion and safe depositing of the trunk known as MONEY IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMPLETION OF RECORDS IN THE ERSTWHILE FIRST LADY'S BOOK OF ACCOUNTS before her husband begins to find a way of recovering her funds abroad.

All you need is just modalities and DEPOSITING CODE HURRIEDLY USED IN DEPOSITING the TRUNK WITH THE Security/Trust Firm for the release
I await your urgent response to enable me detail you on the claim procedure and remunerations to be freely discussed upon your acceptance.
Yours sincerely,
Frank Iloh

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