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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: "malick diop" <mad30401@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mad30403@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:33:40 +0100
Subject: FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION

Attention:

Dear Partner

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

My name is Malick Diop, I am the chief accountant of a
fiduciary company in Dakar,Senegal. I am contacting
you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from
a deceased account though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive or
worried, but I am assuring you that everything has
been well taken care off, and all will be well at the
end of the day.I decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction
.
PROPOSITION;

I am the account officer of a foreigner (name
withheld) who died in an air crash along with his
family on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian
airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can
confirm this from the website below which was
published by CNN.WEBSITE:
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9910/31/missing.plane.02/

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to
make claims for this money as his heir, because they
all died in the same accident. We cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim
as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.Upon this discovery, I now seek
your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to
the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully
worked out by me here before the application ,approval
and transfer of the funds into your account.The basic
reason i want to claim this money with your assistance
is because after 6 years the money will be called back
to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money
shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on
this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be
used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds
rather than allow the bank directors to share this
money amongs themselves at the end of the period.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from
the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the
deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of
this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavor by furnishing me with the following
information if you are interested.
1.Your full name and address In order for me to
prepare the PAPER WORK for release of the funds in
your name.

2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;.For our personal
contact.

Upon your willingness to assist me then i shall tell
you the total amount and we will discuss and agree on
a sharing formular.If this proposal is acceptable by
you, please endeavor to contact me through m email as
specified above.Please keep every communication
confidential until the process is over.

Thanks and best regards,

Malick Diop

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