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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 Bala Daga" <bala_daga@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: bala_ali_at2000@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 05:34:44 +0100
Subject: PLS SAVE ME.

Dear Sir,

I am an accountant with a bank here in London.
There is a fixed deposit of £15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterling)
made to this bank since 1994 which ten years now and since
then no claim or withdrawal has been made on that
deposit. Fortunately, I have been the person working
the interest from the day of deposit to date. The
interesting part of it is that the fixed deposit
belongs to a man in Yugoslavia, this means that the account may have been
abandoned by the surviving family members or that they
are not even aware of the existence of the deposit.
However, I just finished updating the interest of the
deposit this January, and it has come up to
£15,000,000.00 at 7% interest rate per annum. It
is this interest that I am interested in because I
know very well that the family will care less on what
happens to the interest if they want to redeem the
deposit, they will be interested on the main money,
that is if they are able to claim it at all because all
the money lodged into different banks here in Europe
and United States are now been claimed .
Meanwhile, my plan is to withdraw just some amount
from the accumulated interest, which will not even
affect the main fixed deposit. I will give you the
details of procedure and my full ID when I receive
your reply and indication of partnership. Your reward and
amount to withdraw will be our mutual agreement to
avoid any misunderstanding.We have noting to lose,
we only have courage to do this.

Sincerely yours,

Dr.BALA DAGA



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