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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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• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: Ferdinand Gianni <ferdinand_gianni05@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:57:33 +0100 (CET)
Subject: RESERVATION/BOOKING


Hello Sir, Madam

I am Mr. Ferdinand Gianni, I have a request to subject to you.
In search of a suitable place for a stay, I address myself to your establishment in order to make a reservation for a 06 days stay for 5 people who will come for a training course in your country.
However, we will have going need for 5 individual rooms for 6 nights for the period of February 1 to February 6, 2008.
Also I have a service important to ask you. I would like to pay the plane tickets but it is that the terminal of prélement for the credit cards of the travel agency is currently broken down and we are at present in London for a one week seminar or thus we do not puvons to make them credit transfer.
I would like to then solicit you so that you render this service to me which will consist output on the charts that I will send to you, in addition to the amount of the reservation, the sum of 5000 euros which will be used to me for the purchase of the plane tickets. Then made a mandate of this amount via western union with the director of the travel agency of which I would communicate to you coordinated.
I wish of any heart that you render this service to me so that I arrive at your hotel because we are already ready. I would also like as a thanks for the service which you will render to me, that you also output for you the sum of 500 euros like commission.

In waiting of a favorable continuation our request has, want approved the expression of my greetings the most distinguished.

Cordially!!
Mr. Ferdinand Gianni
0022506074569


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