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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: "Mr I.Lootah" <messengerexpress@net-up.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: pin0072004@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:19:59 +0800
Subject: Important Message That Requires Your Attention(From Mr I.Lootah Of ARBIFT)

From: MR. IBRAHIM NASSER RASHID MAJED LOOTAH,
Arab Bank for Investment & Foreign Trade,
Arbift Tower, Baniyas Street, Deira.
P.O.Box 5549
ArbiftOnlineBank,United Kingdom &Europe,
Direct Tel:+447040111529
Fax Tel:+448701339346
Private telephone:satlink +02-3480451-79859
Kindly visit our website at www.arbift.com/gm.htm <http://www.arbift.com/gm.htm>.
Good-day,
I must apologize to you for this contact i am making without formal
introduction as it was necessitated by an urgent need to execute a pending
endeavour.
I am the managing director of the bank named above and need your urgent
assistance to fulfill a pending need.
I need your assistance to secure funds which i discovered that was
deposited to off-set a trade exchange for goods which was never paid-out to
the receivers,who never laid claim to the funds prior to the Gulf War and
after the Gulf War this has been unclaimed for 5 years now.
I need you to represent us in this transaction as the receiver of the said
fund so that payment will be made to you.
The fund runs into several millions of dollars.However after careful
consideration i can use my position to gradually pay-out the receiver that
is you with an initial payment release of $8.5million usd.
Clearly this may seem difficult but i will use my position to make this
transaction a success and without any form of risk as i intend to destroy
all data about this transaction after successful remittance of the fund to
you.
I will supply all information that will be used to actualize this
endeavour all i need from you is to represent us as the receiver for
clearing of the said funds.
If you can provide me with this and also work with me trusting my
judgement and agree unconditionally to follow all directives i give you
towards the success of this trasaction you may reply me indicating your
willingness to assist me and make available the following information below:
1)Your age
2)Your marital status
3)Your occupation
4)Full name and mailing address
5)Mobile,Fixed and fax telephone numbers.
I will then get back to you with the work plan of this transaction.
Only use my private telephone to call me.
Best Regards
MR. IBRAHIM NASSER RASHID MAJED LOOTAH
Ps: You can reach me private satlink
+02-3480451-79859

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