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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: "william Langley." <WILLIAM_LANGLEY@terra.es> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:04:28 +0100
Subject: Investment Opportunity.

Dear Sir,

You will be surprise to see this message but I got your information
through Spartanburg, area chamber of commerce USA.
My name is William Langley, a Chief Auditor, during my last auditing in
the
United States of America with JPMORGANCHASE CO.in New York, we realized
the sum $35.5million owned by one Patric Zuma from Egypt who died
during the terrorist attack of Sept.11,2001 in the world trade center.
All efforts,which have been made to reach the relatives of Mr.Patric
Zuma for the past two years, have not yielded any positive result. It
was later gathered that Mr.Zuma|s divorced wife and only son died in
the September 11 bombing of the World Trade center in New York the same
day.

In our last Board Meeting, the directors jointly decided that Mr.Zuma|s
money should be included in the annual profit for the year 2005. Since
I was the one who introduced Mr. Zuma to the bank, I objected to the
decision and demanded that the fund remains floating in the treasury
for another one year to see if we could actually get the relatives of
Mr.Zuma to claim the money.

This is the main reason why I am contacting. I will like you to help me
in claiming the money from JP MORGAN BANK. I am willing to share the
money with you on a 25% to you and 75% percent for me.
All I need you to do is to put up claims as next of kin to Mr. Zuma, I
will send you all the documents to you. Once this is done, the legaland
accounting
dept will have the fund processed and wired the funds toyour account,
then we can meet to share the money together.

Please I want you to keep this information very Confidential as the
exposure of this information might even lead to my life imprisonment or
death. If you are not willing to assist me, then I will beg you to
still keep the informations secret.

Let me have your telephone number so that I can reach
you if you need me to call you. I look forward to hearing from you
soon.I am presently in London special duties.

Thank you and God bless you.
Much Regards
William Langley

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