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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: "david lee" <mr_davidleeee@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:46:45 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE TO ENABLE US PROCEED.

Good-day my dear,

I am Mr. David Lee, I work with the Barclays bank of London, and Currently I
work in the international remittance department of the Bank. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of 33.1 million British pounds
(thirty three million one hundred thousand British pounds) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer Late Mr. Morris Thompson an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31/2000, including his wife and
only daughter.

Please read more about the crash on visiting this website.

<http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html>

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other staffs in my
department now decided to do business with you and release the money to you
as the next of kin of our late customer for safety keeping and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it.

We have agreed to offer you 20% for your assistance, 5% for any expenses we
may incur during the process of this transaction and the rest 75% shall be
for I and my tow other colleagues.

All the relevant documents shall be forwarded to you upon your indication to
co-operate with us in this business transaction. This business is hundred
percent (100%) risk free. I am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible.

Best regards
Mr. David Lee.
+44-7031947186

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