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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: "collins vin" <collins@info-space.de>
Reply-To: collinsvin206@yahoo.it
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:23:59 +0200
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS


Mr Collins Vincent
FINANCIAL TRUST BANK
NO: 17 COLE STREET,
VICTORIA - ISLAND
LAGOS - NIGERIA

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr Collins Vincent, a staff of FINANCIAL TRUST BANK. I have this urgent deal to transact with you if you can do it. There is an unclaimed deposited fund of $27.3Million dollars in the name of Mr Jame Johnson with no traceable address.

This fund has stayed over 10 years in the bank without a claimant.
Professionally, any unclaimed money for a period exceeding 10 years is recovered by the bank.

I being in the position of the file. I want you as a foreign partner to assume the next of kin of the late James Johnson as I will want you to write to the Financial Trust Bank for claims of the fund.

I will advice you adequately on how to do this upon your positive response. Bear in mind that I will stand as a neutral body to the whole transaction. You will only be dealing with any attorney that will be choosen to secure all the neccessary claim documents in your favour.
Your compensation has been taken into consideration as you will be required to provide a freign account where the fund will be transfered into. To be precise, your share is 20% of the total amount. Any financial expenses incured by you and I, will be reimbursed immediately the fund gets into your account.

I am willing to give you the details of the deposited fund and the way we can execute the deal successfully. First I will want to see the desire in you for the execution of this one in a life-time business deal.


Mr. Collins Vincent.



NOTE: YOUR URGENT AND FAVORABLE RESPONSE IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED

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