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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: "William Raymond" <williamray2000@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:59:55 -0700
Subject: COVENTRY

From:Dr Williams Raymond
Bills & Exchange Manager
COVENTRY BUILDING SOCIETY
Economic House,
P.O.BOX 9
High Street
Coventry,CV15QN .

PRIVATE AND URGENT
I am a Management staff of the above named Bank,here in the U.K.I am directly in
charge of Bills & Exchange Department of the Bank.
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account.Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone
apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of
the day.We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$15,200,000.00 (Fifteen Million,Two Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) in a account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family.Since his death,none of his next-
of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.We
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Upon this
discovery,we now seek your permission to have you stand as the next-of-kin
to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the
funds.(US$15,200,000.00) to be released in your favour as the benificary's next-
of-kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order mandating us
to locate any of the deceased benificaries.Please acknowledge receipt of this message
in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:

1.Your Full Names and Address
2.Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate departments
for necessay approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made.We shall be
compensating you with 30% of the funds on final conclusion of this project while 5%
has been set aside to defray all expenses that might be incurred by both parties during
the course this transaction,while the rest shall be for us.You shall retain your share
while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes in your country.

If this proposal is acceptable to you,do not take undue advantage of the trust we have
bestowed on you.
I await your urgent email.

Please reply to my email address:

Regards,

William Raymond.

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