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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: "usman ali" <usmanali_104@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:50:02 +0000
Subject: message

Dear friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your
address through a local Business directory on the web.I must apologise for
taking some of your valuable time to explain a proposal that I believe
will be of utmost benefit to us .

I need your help and urgent assistance in transfering the sum of
(11.300.000)ELEVEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS immediately
to your account.the fund belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his surposed next of kin in 2000 plane crash.

we want to release the money to you as the nearest person to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it because we don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as
unclaimed
money.


we will give you 25% of the total sum for the provision of foreign
account and 70% will be for us while 5% will be set aside for any mislenious
expenses incurred during the business.

This transaction is 100% hitch-free on both side and has no atom of
negativity,for we have made all required arrangement for the transfer of
this fund to your account.

Please we would like you to keep this transaction very confidential as you
may wish to know that we are Bank officials.

I will send you more details as soon as i get a positive reply from you.

MR Usman Ali(Bill and Exhange Manager )

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