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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: "MR RASHID BIN MAKTOUM" <mrrashidbinmaktoum_emiratesbanks@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rashidbinmaktoum_emiratesbankltd@publicaccounting.com
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:50:10 +0400
Subject: EMIRATES BANKS INT.DUBAI UAE(DEAL)

MR. RASHID BIN MAKTOUM
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARMENT.
EMIRIATE BANK OF U.A.E.
CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE.

COMPLIMENT OF THEY DAY MY GOOD FRIEND.

Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to
assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust and confidentiality,
while browsing the internet after
I and my colleagues have decided on what to do as regards the
matter.
I am MR RASHID BIN MAKTOUM, the manager Bills and Exchange under foreign
remittance department of Emirate Bank of Dubai U.A.E International. I
am writing this letter to ask
for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity
in my department.

We discovered an abandoned sum of US20.5M that belong to one of our
forign customer MR. WILLIAM KNUDSON, 53, who died in Alaska air flight
261 in they year 31st jan 2000, also he helped found Inland Business
Systems, a business machines company, in 1977. Traveling with his
partner, Bradley Long, 39, of Sacramento, California. The two were
returning home after visiting the bed and breakfast inn they owned in
Puerto Vallarta while his wife and her daughter died in auto car
accident.confirm this story at the web site below:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full details
of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to
face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can
receive this money into a foreign account or any account of
your choice where the fund will be safe and I will fly to your country
for withdrawal and sharing investments.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately
indicate your interest by a return response.

My warm regards,
MR RASHID BIN MAKTOUM
EMIRATES BANKS INT.DUBAI UAE

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