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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: "Barrister Femi Lamido" <f_lamido@msn.com>
Reply-To: femi1lamido@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:23:07 +0000
Subject: This correspondence refers.

From: Barrister. Femi Lamido
Lamido & associates
Solicitors and advocates

I am an attorney to late Mr. Andrew, who used to be a private contractor
with the Shell Development Company in Nigeria, On the 6th January 2003, he
was involved in a car accident along Lekki Penussula express road, in which
he lost his life. Mr. Andrew had an account valued at about $16.5 million US
dollars in a Bank and the Bank management has issued me a notice to provide
his next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next ten official
working days.

After several unsuccessful attempts to contact his people, I decided to
contact you to assist me in repatriating the money and property left behind
by my client since you have the same last name and can stand as the next of
kin to him to avoid this sum get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the Bank where it was deposited.

If you are interested, let me have your contact phone number so that we
begin this transaction. I have all the necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this transaction through.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with
me urgently for more information on how we hope to active this objective.

Best regards,

Femi Lamido Esq


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