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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: "Abdul Akubia" <adudlakubia147@msn.com>
Reply-To: adudlakubia147@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:06:07 +0000
Subject: I need your urgent business co-operation.

Good day to you,

I have a proposal for you - this however is not mandatory nor will I in any
manner compel you to honour against your will. I am 50, and a senior
advocate running my own private law firm.

There is an account which belongs to my late client Morris Thompson who
was then the President and Chief Officer of Doyon Limited Regional
Corporation. the account has been dormant for the past 8 year.and When the
bank discovered that there had been no deposits nor withdrawals from this
account for this long period, they contacted me as the personal lawyer to
provide my late client next of kin so i decided to carry out a system
investigation and discovered that non of the family member nor relations of
the late person is aware of this account.

This is the story in a nutshell. Now I want an account overseas where the
bank will transfer this funds.Thereafter , I had planned to destroy all
related documents for this account. It is a careful network and for the past
eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a itch-free operation.
The amount is not so much at the moment and plus all the accumulated
interest the balance in this account stands at 9.5m

Now my questions are:-

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer Consider
this and get back at us as soon as possible.

Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein be
accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it
deserves.I Expect your urgent response if you can handle this project.send a
mail for confirmation of your intrest.

Respectfully yours,

Mr James Abraham



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