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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: "geraldine cole" <goodtidings_mail88@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: goodtidings_mail88@outgun.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:35:30 -0700
Subject: ASSISTANT NEEDED

FROM:MR TONY RICHMOND.
INTERNATIONAL TRUST BANK,
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA WEST AFRICA.
Dear koons,
I have to inform you about this.
I am Mr TONY RICHMOND Client Service Manager of International Trust Bank
{ITB}.Am contacting you based on foreigner Late {Dr Edward koons} who is a
citizen of your country and was an oil merchant and contractor with the
Federal Governmentof Nigeria until his death on board the ill fated Kenyan
Airways bus {A310300} was our customer at the INTERNATIONAL TRUST BANK and
had a balance of US$10.2 million which the bank now expects his next of kin
to claim as the beneficiary.

So far, i am very happy that i came incontact with you since you both are
from the same country.please i will want you to know that i will get my own
share for consulting you about this matters.More because he left his next of
kin column in his account opening forms blank. Due to this development our
management and the board of directors are making arrangements for the funds
to be declared unclaimed and subsequently paid into the federal government
purse.

Usually, funds of this nature ends up in the greedy pockets of some
politicians due to our corrupt society.To avert this negative development my
colleagues and I have decided to look for a reputable person to act as the
next of kin to the late Doctor,so that the funds could be processed and
released into his account, which is where you come in.

We shall make arrangement with a qualified and reliable attorney that will
represent you in liaising with my bank for any inconveniency during the
period of this transaction. All legal documents to aid your claim for this
fund and to prove your relationship with the deceased .

Thank you very much.
I wait anxiously for your response.
Yours faithfully,
TONY RICHMOND.

please reply to (goodtidings_mail88@outgun.com )for urgent response to your
mail.
thanks
Tony

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