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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: "Joseph Briggs" <joseph4444@handbag.com>
Reply-To: briggs44@swissinfo.org
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:53:29 -0800
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU WITH THIS?

CAN I TRUST YOU WITH THIS?

DAVID & BOLTON(Financial Advisors)
LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM
josephbriggs44@netscape.net
josephbriggs@zipmail.com.br

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

I am Dr Joseph Briggs, a private financial consultant at DAVID & BOLTON United
Kingdom. I am the personal financial / business consultant to Mr John Bruce
who lived, worked and died in Zimbabawe. He died during the land dispute
in Zimbabwe without any will. I contacted your Embassy to locate any of
my client?s immidiate or extended relatives, and this has proved unsuccessful.After
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet and locate any member of his family but it was a futile search.
Hence, I am contacting you. I need you to assist in securing the money and
property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where his huge deposits were lodged. Particularly,
the bank where the deceased had a domiciliary account valued Twenty million,
($20m) United States Dollars which is in London. Because of the Probate
Registry requirements, we have searched the internet for a suitable person
and we choose you. We seek your consent to present you as beneficiary . So
that the proceeds of this account valued at $20 million Dollars can be paid
to you and then you and me can share the money. The sharing ratio will be
60% to me and 37% to you, while 3% should be for expenses or tax as your
government may require. If you consent to cooperate with us as the beneficiary,
we will prepare all necessary documents to back up claims providing them
proofs. All we require is your honest cooperation to enable us execute this
deal with absolute confidentiality from you. We guarantee that this will
be done under a legitimate/official arrangement that will protect you now
and in future.
Please get in touch with me by email to enable us advance further.
Best Regards,
Dr Joseph Briggs
josephbriggs44@netscape.net
josephbriggs@zipmail.com.br





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