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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: REMI OYO. <remi_oyo59@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: remioyo@gawab.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:09:10 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND.


Dear Friend,
I am Mrs. Remi Oyo Chife Press Seretary to President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and personal friend to wife of the President Late Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo.
I have a concealed business suggestion for you.Before the death of the Nigeria first Lady Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo,we both made similar trip to Europe,Asia and America and in one of the trip,we visited a Security Firm in Rotterdam(Netherland) where she made a deposite of Truck Box under the disguise that they were jeweries unkowing to them that it contans to them that it contans the sum of Twenty Million Five Hunderd US Dollas(20,500,000.00)Where i stand and sign as the withness and I discover that she deposited the truck boxes without any next of kin in the paper work of the security company.
Before her visit to Spain where she died she confide in me that apart from me that no other person knows about the deposite in Rotterdam(Netherlands).So twenty Million Five hundred thousand US Dollos is lying with the security firm and i alone knows about it.So after her death I wrote a letter to the security firm letting them know that Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo is dead i want to claim the boxes which we deposited,They also acknowledge by repling the letter.
Please verify the claims with the links below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4368806.stm
What bothers me most is that due to the nature of my offical and personnal relationship with Mr.President i can not on my own visit the security firm.I am under survilance each time I travel out of the country by the Econmic and Finanical Crime Commission(EFCC).It is against this backdrop I will want you as a foreginerto stand as the next of kin to the Late Nigeria
first Lady Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo so that you will be able to recieve this funds. I have everything it takes to put this opportunity in life.
Mrs.Remi Oyo

N.B IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS YOU ARE TO FORWARD TO ME THE FOLLOWING DETAILS: YOUR COMPLETE NAMES AND ADDRRESS,CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, THIS IS TO ENABLE ME PERFECT ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION WITH THE SECURITY FIRM
AND MOVE THIS MONEY ACROSS TO YOUR COUNTRY OF CHOICE.PLEASE, YOU WILL ALSO IGNORE THIS LETTER AND RESPECT MY TRUST IN YOU BY NOT EXPOSING THIS
TRANSACTION, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED. I LOOK FORWARDS TO WORKING WITH YOU. THANK YOU.

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