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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Lim Yew Khin" <limyewkhin005@gmail.com>
Reply-To: limyewkhin@sify.com
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:54:25 +0000
Subject: Hi dear.


*Dear Partner,*

*I was reading through a web page and found your profile interesting while
searching for a possible partner following an opportunity that will be of
immense benefit to both of us, if pursued to its logical conclusion.
Although, I do not know you in person but I do maintain my late
father's-philosophy that business are people and contacts. Business is
always based on trust and open mindedness, and it is on this note that I
act. I am Lim Yew Khin a personal consultant to Thaksin Shinawatra,
The Richest man and Ousted Prime Minister of Thailand and owner Manchester
City football club as well as former owner of the following companies:
Shin Satellite, a Subsidiary of Shin Corp
Shinawatra Computer and Communications*

*SOURCE OF FUNDS:*

*I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$11.5M, which I seek your
Partnership in accommodating for me. You will be rewarded with 30% of the
total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?
INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF As a personal consultant to him, authority was
handed over to me in transfer of money from a business deal with my boss
Thaksin Shinawatra.
Already the funds have left the shore of Thailand to a European private
Bank where the final crediting is expected to be carried out. While I was
on the process, My Boss got ousted in a military coup by General Surayud
Chulnanont. You can catch more of the story on this website:
**http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm...4/sfnmac104.xml*<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm...4/sfnmac104.xml>

*http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/21/stories/2006092103621400.htm*<http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/21/stories/2006092103621400.htm>

*YOUR ROLE:
All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted Sum
and I will re-profile the funds with your Name, which will enable The
European bank transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this Sum to
relocate to American Continent and never to be connected to any of Thaksin
Shinawatra.Conglomerates as my boss is now on the run and has been
declared wanted by the military government. As Soon as I confirm your
readiness to conclude the transaction with me, I will provide you with the
details. Waiting for your urgent response.*

*Thank you very much.*

*Kind Regards,
Lim Yew Khin.*

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