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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: "lee chou" <valueequities@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: liu_007@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:25:55 +0000
Subject: QUICK REPLY NEEDED

Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Chen Chun-Hwa, the bill and exchange manager of a Wing Hang Bank in
HongKong and I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Wong who was on
board the ill-fated EgyptAir 99 that crashed killing all passenger on board,
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the
end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction. You can visit the BBC website for the avoidance of doubt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/502503.stm

PROPOSITION,

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten million five hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Wong ,who died along with his
entire family on a plane crash. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon
this discovery, I now seek your permission to
have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will
be carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$10,500,000.00) to be
released
in your favor as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business . Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details
and relevant that will help you understand the transaction

Kind Regards,
Mr.Chen Chun-Hwa.
WING HANG BANK LTD
253-259 Castle Peak Road,
Cheung Sha Wan,
Kowloon,Hong Kong.

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