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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: "Alhaji Ibrahim Musa" <e_jerry1@msn.com>
Reply-To: alhajimusa123@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:59:09 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT !

Dear Partner,

I came across your e-mail address in the chambers of commerce and industries
and i felt that you can be of assistance to me.

I want to transfer out $30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million United States
Dollars) from our bank here, I have the courage to contact you for this
important transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now
or in future.

I am Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, the auditor and head of computing department of
our bank here in Nigeria,West Africa. There is an account opened in this
bank in 1995 and since my inception into office in 2001, nobody has operated
on this account again, after going through some old files, I discovered that
if i do not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for nothing.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to any local bank here in Nigeria, but can only be approved to any
foreign account because the money is United States Dollars and the former
owner of the account was John Hughes and he was a foreigner too.

At the conclusion of this transaction, you will be given 35% of the total
amount,60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during this process.

Send me as a matter of urgency for onward processing of the transfer
documents in your favour, Your Private Tele & Fax Numbers, Account Number,
Account Name, Your Bank Name & Address,Your International Passport,Your
Occupation & Date Of Birth.

I await to receive your details, so that we can start the tranfer process.

Sincerely,
Alhaji Ibrahim Musa.

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