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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: "Peter Okocha" <peterokocha09@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:18:01 -0500
Subject: REQUEST (ROY)

MR.PETER OKOCHA
Account OFFICIAL OF INTER-CONTINENTAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
Email; peter.okocha@email.ro

Dear ROY,

My name is MR.PETER OKOCHA I work in the credit and accounts department of
Inter-continental Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect
of a foreign customer with our bank, before his sudden death. His name is
Mr.MARK ROY, He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria in
the year 2002 May 4th. Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Mr.MARK
ROY who was an oil erchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the
deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the
money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.

He had only $9.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an
insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed
information other than my very self considering my position in the bank as
his account officer.Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to
claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your cooperation in using
your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a
foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this
point I am the only one with the information because I have removed the
deposit file from the safe. By this doing,what is required of you is to send
anapplication laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the deceased
officially to the director of our bank.

I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the
processing of the transfer in your name and favour. Finally i want you to
understand that the request for a foreigneras the next of kin is Occassioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone
a Nigerian cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me,then we
shall discuss on how the money will be split between us.

I will direct you on how to apply for the claims of this money. Please if
you are interested and capable to carry out this deal with me, reply through
this -mail(peter.okocha@email.ro)

Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
MR.PETER OKOCHA

PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro
PLS REPLY BACK TO peter.okocha@email.ro



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