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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.Faroq Uztaz(Regional Director)" <faruz10@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:30:41 +0000
Subject: Request for Foreign Assistance!

From:Dr.Faroq Uztaz(Regional Director)
Magnum Trust Security Company Sarl
Lome-Togo.
Tel:00228 909 6677
Subject:Request for Foreign Assistance!

Attn:Dear Friend,

I wish this my proposal will not come to you as a surprise. I am Dr.Faroq Uztaz, a Regional Director with Magnum Trust Security Company Sarl with regional office in Lome-Togo. We had a foreign client (Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin)who deposited a coded consignment valued @ US$8.5million(Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with our Company. Unfortunately,this client was among the victims of EGYPTAIR FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999in U.S.A. However, they were given a ceremonial mass burial near the crash site.Confirmable from the below websites:
www.cnn.com/us/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/10/
www.ntsb.gov/events/EA990/default.htm but, since then we have not had any body to come for the claims as the next of kin. A sitaution I have monitored closely with my position in the Company.

Now, having monitored this deposit and managed it over the years before his death, and hence nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past two years plus, I have removed the file to my "private vault". I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement has being concluded by me and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me move the funds to his account. This does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal documentations would be handled by me and every loop holes sealed off.

I therefore request you to confirm your interest by a return message and I will furnish you with the full details and what to do concerning this deal. What you stand to gain(%)would be discussed and it is negotiable before the deal commences.

Believing to hear from you soonest.

Kind regards,
Dr.Faroq Uztaz.


n:b:If interested please send your personal telephone and fax numbers.
Thanks for your future assistance.

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