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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: "Dr.Charles Joel" <amy_obi11@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charles_ade06@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:56:15 +0200
Subject: I am Dr.Charles

Dear,

We want to transfer to overseas (+ACQ- 55.000.000.00 euro) Fifty five million
Euro only) from a Bank in Europe, I want to ask you to quietly look for a
reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an
existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this
money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you
and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Dr.Charles Joel Auditor General of a bank in Europe, during the course of
our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
1999 and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again, after going
through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a +AFs-heir+AF0- hence the money is floating and if I do
not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner
of this account is Katsunosuki Yuifum Bussho is a Japanese citizen who perished
with other 147 passengers in EGYPTIAN Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea.
Visit for further detail: {http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3365721.stm}
An Inheritance like this nature, what will make it crime is if you did not
follow the Rules, Laws/Procedures of an INTERNATIONAL INHERITANCE and as such I
have made a master plan on how this business should be followed. If you are
serious and capable to do this business with me, and you know that you will
never, never ever betray me now or in the future let me know so that I will
give you the full transaction details, already a perfect arrangement is in
place, planed and marshaled out for a smooth sound successful transaction that
both parties will be joyful and proud of at the end. If you are truly serious
like I said send me first the follows;

{1} Your correct bank account information where you will like the fund to be
transferred to.
(2.) Your full Name and Address,
(3.) Your private phone and fax numbers both home and office for easy
communication.
{4} Your brief life biography. I look forward to your earliest reply through my
private email... charles789@box.az
Yours

sincerely,
Dr. Charles

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