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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: "Eric Hall" <erichall231@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: erichall1945@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:33:41 +0000
Subject: Kind regards,

Attention: Groot,


Compliments of the day to you. I must solicit your confidentiality and
assure you that I am contacting you in good faith and this proposal will be
of mutual benefit. I am Mr. Eric M. Hall (esq.), a legal practitioner and
the personal attorney to the late Floyd Groot. My service covers
individuals, corporate bodies and institutions. I also represent Government
Departments as an External Solicitor. My client died along with his entire
family in a fatal accident, sparing none of their lives, some years ago.

Before his death, I assisted him in the deposit of 7,5 GBP Seven Million,
five hundred thousand Great British Pounds) with a Security Company for
safekeeping. The funds have remained unclaimed since his death, and such
unclaimed funds are appropriated and returned to the treasury as a matter of
policy. Considering the lack of success in my bid to locate any of his
relatives for over a year now, I hereby solicit your consent to enable me
present you as the Next of Kin to my deceased client. I am contacting you
for one reason. Firstly, I strongly believe that the Security Company does
not deserve to inherit the funds.

These reason led to my resolve to claim the funds, which was why I contacted
you. With your permission, I will proceed to establish you as the next of
kin/Beneficiary to my late client. As soon as this is done, you will then
give instructions to the Security Company, to transfer the deposited funds
into another account you will provide, after which we shall then share the
funds upon agreed terms. When I receive your response, I will provide you
with further details.

I await your reply,

Thanks.
Yours Truly,
Mr.Michael Hall {Esq.}.

The information in this email is confidential. Please, if you are not
interested destroy this message; delete any copies held on your systems
immediately. You should not retain copy or use this email for any purpose,
nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person thank you.

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