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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: "MARK JOHNSON" <markjohnson0004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mark0003x@latinmail.com
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:37:31 +0000
Subject: MR MARK JOHNSON

Dear Sir/Ma,

I am an accountant with GRAND BANK AFRICA PLC. My name is Mr.Mark Johnson.I
am the Personal Account officer to Engineer. Christian Stubbs, a National of
your country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM
RESOURCES,VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS. Herein after shall be referred to as my
client On 30 JAN 2000,my client, his wife and their three children were
involved in the Kenya Airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which
departed from Nairobi to destination Lagos and all the passengers on-board
and the flight crew, including his family died in this fatal aircrash on 30
JAN 2000.

Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank where these huge deposits were lodged,particularly the GRAND BANK
AFRICA PLC ,Where the deceased had an account valued at about ($10 Million
US Dollars) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account
valued at ($10 Million US Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and can
share the money 50% to me and 40% to you. While 10% for unforeseen bottle
necks we might incure in this transaction an attorney will be contracted to
help us revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can
be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.

If you are interested in this transaction kindly send me this requirements:

YOUR FULL NAME :
HOME OR OFFICE ADDRESS :
AGE :
OCCUPATION :
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER :

Call me on my direct phone number 011-234-803-5822605 for more
clearification on this transaction.

Best regards,

MR MARK JOHNSON

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