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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: "AWELE EGO" <peterwilliams121@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aweleego121@live.com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:33:23 -0800
Subject: RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION


RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
MR.Awele Ego
Remittance Department
Zenith Bank Of Nigeria.

Attention:Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your
contract / inheritance file presently on my desk, and I
found out that you have not received your payment due to
your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligationsgiving to you in
respect to your contract /inheritance
payment.

Secondly, you are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some
non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and
willhave to stop if you so wish to receive your payment
immediately.

After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have
resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you
may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT
CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia
Pacific,which is the instruction given by our Presidenct. Alhaji UAMR MUSA
yar'Adua (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will
use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part
of the world, but the maximum is ($5,000) Fifteen Thousand
Us Dollars in three transactions per day.

So, if you like to receive your fund this way,you are
advice
to get back to me with the following information below to
enable me get back to you quickly with full details on how
to receive your card.

you are hereby advice to get back to me with the following
through this mail;aweleego121@live.com <mail%3Baweleego121@live.com>

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Address where you want the payment centre to send your
ATM CARD.
(3) Phone And Fax Number
We shall be expecting to receive your information you have
stop any further communication with anybody or office.

On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me with the
above mentioned information.Thanks for your
co-operation.Best Regards,
MR.AWELE EGO
Remittance Department
Zenith Bank Of Nigeria.

Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our
code
of conduct, which is (805) so you have to indicate this
code
when contacting this CARD CENTRE

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