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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: "Dr.Pedro West" <pedrop@teenmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: pedrowest@critterpost.com
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:24:24 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE

AUDIT AND ACCOUNT UNIT
MORGAN INTERNATIONAL BANK
MORGAN TOWERS LONDON ENGLAND.

E-mail Address: (pedrowest@critterpost.com)
Dear Sir,

I am Dr.Pedro West. a staff of bills and exchange at the foreign remittance Department, of morgan international bank london. I am writing following the impressive information about you from the internet.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$35m)
Thirty FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS only, in an account that
belongs to mr Donald Pierre who died along with his entire family in september 11th terrorist attack on the Americans.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relations died along with him at the attack leaving nobody behind! for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in the bank now decided to contact you, For the money to be released to you as the next of kin or relation to the decease since nobody is fronting for the money and we do not want this fund to go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four(4) years the money will be transferred into federal government account as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was not an English but from USA and non indigene can not stand as a next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the foreign partner and 5% for expenses incurred during the cost of remittance. Therefore to enable immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged, you
should contact me with my! e-mail adress immediately for
further briefing:(pedrowest@critterpost.com)

I look forward to hearing from you soon.Include your phone
and fax numbers when replying.

Best regards

Dr.Pedro West
Foreign Remittance.
pedrowest@critterpost.com

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