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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: peter khan<drmbote_2003@tatanova.com>
Date:
Subject: URGENT

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

I am very sure that this message will be a very suprising letter to you
since we have not make any business relationship before.I am only contacting
you for this important business because I have no other means of doing it
unless I am supported by a foreigner who will make claims of the Money.
We want to transfer to overseas account ($15,000.000.00 POUNDS) (
FIFTEEN-MILLION POUNDS STERLINGS) from a bank here in london,I want to ask you, If you
are capable or to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new
Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will
never let me down either now or in future.I am mr peter k. khan , the External Auditor General of (A BANK OF
SCOUTLAND UNITED KINGDOM).
During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an
account opened in the bank in 1997 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this
account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. MR JOHN HUGHES a Canadian and great
industrialist. He was African Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately
died in the plane crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast,
January 30 2000. You will read more stories about MR JOHN HUGHES's family death
with there pictures and SIL ere www.wycliff.jo/Jugendkeller/john hughes.htm
Also about the crash on visiting this
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
until his death he has a Gold/Diamond Consulting firm.I also found out that their only surviving daughterJOHN HUGHES died last
year.
The total amount involve is ($15,000.000.00 POUNDS) and we wish to
transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but to a
foreigner who has correct information about the account,which I shall give to you
upon your positive responses.I am revealing this secret to you with believe
in god that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first
and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply
urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.
I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a
key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I
guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official Will
destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving
no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence of other
staffs to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign
exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total
amount, 60% will be for us. There is no risk at all, and all the paper work for
this transaction will be done by me using my position and connection in the
bank.i wait for your urgent riply through my personal mail above.
Yours faithfully,

mr peter k. khan.

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