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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: ARAB BANK UNITED KINGDOM<ericbenson3@tatanova.com>
Date:
Subject: FROM MICHEAL CLARK LONDON

Greetings

I am Micheal Clark the head of corporate and institutional banking Bills
and Exchange Arab Bank Plc 73 Brooks street London W1k 4HX .I came to know you in my private search for a reliableand reputable
person to handle this Confidential Transaction,which requires trust honesty
and relationship oriented and mutual benefits.
In 4th, Nov 1998, an iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor Mr Barea
Nafea Dawoud Ibrahim made a capital investment (Fixed deposit) for 36
calendar months,valued at US$14,320,000.00 (Fourteen Million Three hundred and
twenty Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity in 2001,I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but was informed to re-invest
the money for another 36 calendar due the interest rate which was
encauraging to our customer.And upon maturity for the second time we sent another
routing notification to his address both in Uk and Iraq but got no reply.
After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the British Petroluem Corporation that Mr Barea Nafea Dawoud
Ibrahim was beheaded on 2nd Oct 2004 by an iraqi islamist group known as Ansar
al-Sunna.The group said in a statement that Ibrahim was an "apostate" (a person
who abandons their faith).the group claimed that ibrahim was working as a
CIA agent against the Iraqis.Formore Highlights you can visit this website
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/048397.php
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a
WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless because his
wife and two sons were also killed and beheaded by this islamist group.
Thanks to president bushs action which have ushered democracy in iraq as the
iraqis can now take their place in comity of states in the world.On further investigation into his account i discovered that Mr Barea
Nafea Dawoud Ibrahim declared his wife and son as his next of heirs in
relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in
Arab BankPlc here in london.This sum US$14,320,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since 2004
here in Arab Bank Plc London. According to the british law at the expiration of seventh year of the
investment the money will automatically be reverted to the ownership of the
British Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and the seventh year is
Nov 2005.Arab Bank cannot release the fund from his account unless someone
applies for claims as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.Consequently, my proposal is that i want to seek your
consent as a foreigner to stand in as the NEXT OF KIN to the decesased so that
the bank will transfer the money to your designated account.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully
worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any
of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I are assuring you that the
business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for myself
and for investment purpose as i will leave Arab bank by the end of the
transfer The sharing of the funds will be based according to agreement within
you and I.
As soon as i receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary
modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both partieswithout any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you.ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX
NUMBERIN YOUR REPLY to michclarka@yahoo.co.in
Yours Faithfully,
Micheal Clark

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