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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: libeta@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:50:09 +0100
Subject: for our..

From:MR. Gunther Moller,
Waldschmidtstrasse 59 61,
Frankfurt Germany.

Dear Sir,

Business proposal / Strictly Confidential

My name is Mr Gunther Moller,I am a vault manager with a security company
here in the United Kingdom. I got your contact from your country?s chamber
of commerce here in the UK. This business if handled with utmost care and
secrecy will be successfully concluded within 14 working days. In January
2003, before the commencement of the war in Iraq, one top Government official
of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussien deposited a consignment with
our company under diplomatic cover and declared it family valuables.

After the American led coalition war in Iraq that led to the depositor's
death, no one has appeared to ask for the condition of this consignment,
one of my colleagues working on this matter with me personally investigated
what the deposit might be, nursing the fear of Chemical weapon, but investigations
proved the content of the consignment was cash deposit to the value of US$65,000,000.00.
(Sixty Five Million dollars) .Since the actual owner of this consignment
is only known to me and this my colleague, we decided to look for a foreign
partner who can come forward and claim the consignment now that the owner
is dead. What we want to do now is to change the ownership of the consignment
to anybody who is willing to work with us.

We have made necessary arrangements for the change of ownership to be completed
within 5 working days of receipt of the information we will require from
you, if you will be interested to work with us. We will complete the change
of ownership in your name so as to make it easy for you to come up and claim
the consignment, and the proceeds will be shared between you, I and my other
colleague in the office. If this proposal meets your interest, please get
back to me by email for further details on how we have planed to carry out
this operation smoothly.
We wait urgently to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
Gunther Moller.




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