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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 Robert Andrew Jr." <andrew_adamsjr@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: robertjr@fastermail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:01:43 +0100
Subject: FROM:Dr Robert Andrew Jr.

FROM:Dr Robert Andrew Jr.
No:21/22 Jan Smith street
Johannesburg South Africa.
Satelite phone no.874-763648313
FAX [874]-763648315

{A FOREIGNER IS NEEDED}


Dear Sir/Madam,


My name is Dr Robert Andrew Jr,I am the operational
manager in account management section incharge of
credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks
here in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of my bank who perished on EGYPTIAN
Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea with the whole
passengers aboard.

There is an account opened in this bank by this great
late diamond and oil magnet who died without a written
or oral WILL attatched to the account. Since his death
I personally has watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim this funds and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it,the
account has no other beneficiary and until his death
he was the manager of his company.

The total amount involved is 48,223,000.00 USD.[ Forty
eight million two hundred and twenty three thousand
United States Dollar ]. We wish to start the first
transfer with $8,000,000.00[Eight million] and upon
successful transaction without any disappointment from
your side, we shall re-apply for the transfer of the
remaining balance to your account.I have secretly
discussed this matter with the manager of the bank who
I must involve in order to have a smooth and a
successful transfer of the fund to any foreign bank
account which you are going to nominate. On this note,
I want you to act as the foreign beneficiary of the
fund from the deceased by providing your bank account
where the fund will be transferred for immediate
investment on any viable project as no one has come up
to be the next of kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than 2 years without claim hence the money
will be recalled to the government treasury as
unclaimed after this long period of domancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal
search to see if you can assist by providing your safe
bank account for the transfer or find a reliable
person who will be capable of receiving such amount in
his or her personal account.At the conclussion of the
transfer 65% of the fund will be for me, I will give
you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity
both in Africa and in your country while the remaining
5% will be set aside to settle expenses both parties
might incure during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a
detailed information about the transaction.I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this business is
100% risk and trouble free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you
apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from
the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail
or you ask for my phone/fax num. You should also
include your private fax and phone numbers for easy
and safe communication.If you want to call my No. dial
the way you use to call other countries, do not put
South African area code, because it is a satellite
phone.

Respectfully yours,

Dr Robert Andrew Jr.









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