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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: mugu2003@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:04:01 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GOOD=20DAY?=

Dear Friend,

I am well confident of your capability of executing this transaction for
the mutual benefit of our both families, believing that you will not expose
or betray the trust and confident I am about to repose on you.

We need your urgent assistance in transfering the sum of $11.3m (eleven
million three hundred thousand us dollars) immediately to your account.The
money has been dormant for years in our Bank here.

we want to release the money to you as the nearest person to the owner of
the account who died in an air crash since july 2000.

Since his death nobody has neither applied to our Bank as his relation nor
nearest person to him because his supposed next of kin died along with him
in the air crash.

We don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an aboundomed money,so
that is the reason why i contacted so that you will join us and we claim
the money.

We have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum if you agree to assist
us in the business and 2% will be for any mislenous expences incured during
the transaction while the rest will be for me and my colleague.

Please we would like you to keep this transaction very confidential as you
may wish to know that we are Bank officials.

Upon receipt of your positive reply,i will send you more details of the
transaction.

Dr.Mugu Adams
Bank Of Africa,Burkina Faso-West Africa





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