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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: "Mark Willson" <mark@willsonworld.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:01:55 +0000
Subject: Very Urgent

Good day to you,

Please, do not be apprehensive by this mail. My names are Dr.Mark
Willson.THE GENERAL MANAGER STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC I am contacting you in
confidence believing that you will be most helpfull and not turn down my
humble request of you.

I need you (as a foreigner) to assist me make an official claims on a sum of
US$8.7million which has been lying in an account with this bank since 1996.
This money was left behind by a foreigner who died in a plane crash in 1996
without any beneficiary.

Since no one has come forward to claim this money, some board members of
this bank are planning to declare it unclaimable and divert it to one
discredited trust fund for Arms and Amunition. I am against this.So i
personally transfered this money to a security and finance company in EUROPE
so the money is presently lying in EUROPE.

Now, I need you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin of the
deceased man and make an official application of claim for this money as the
beneficiary. I will furnish you with all the pertinent details to
fascilitate your claims.

I intend to use part of this money for charity and some for us. You will be
entiltle to 30% and I and my colleagues to 65%. while 5% shall be used to
reinburese expenses that might be incured during the process.

If this is okay by you, please kindly get back to me via this
E-mail:mark_willson@rediffmail.com furnishing me with your full names
address direct telephone and fax numbers for more informations.


I await your immediate response.

Best regards

Dr.Mark Willson.

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