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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: calvinstone50@tiscali.it
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:30:15 +0100
Subject: DEAR PARTNER

ATTN:

Am Mr.CALVIN STONE , in charge of bills and foreign exchange remittance
Department of TRADE MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to ask
for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity
in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars)
in an account belonging to one of our customer, who died in a plane crash
with the entire family in year 2000.Since we got information about his death
we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.

We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin
or relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if such
money remained unclaimed for a period of four (4) years, it would be transferred
into the TRADE MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another officer
and I in the department now decided to transfer this money into your account
as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since
nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go back into the
bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out
this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country. We havedecided
to give you 15% of the total sum. So please, as a matter of urgency send
to me your telephone and
fax numbers for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we
conclude this transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are intrested send me an immediate mail so that I can explain
the details to you to understand everything about this business.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Mr.CALVIN STONE.





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