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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: foregordon@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:08:25 +0200
Subject: Request..

From: Mr. Gordon Forest

London, England

Email: foregordon@london.com



Dear Sir,

My name is Mr. Gordon Forest an auditor in Somerset England; I am contacting you for a very important and urgent business transaction (Fund Transfer)

During my annual auditing course of a commercial bank in 2003,I made discovery of a floating bank account with amount balance 18.5Million (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pound Sterling). I’ve monitored the account since 2003 to date and no one has ever come forward to operate or claim the money, actually the account was last operated in 1990 by the account owner and from my investigation the account owner died in 1991,he was a foreigner, and not an English person.

Hence my letter, I want you to act as beneficiary of the account by nominating a trusted bank account for transfer of the money since no name left by the late account owner as heirs to the account. I consider it necessary to transfer out the money from Bank of England to any account overseas for our personal use instead the bank to confiscate the money unnecessarily if they know about it.

You will be entitled to 20% of the total sum after the transfer, 5% mapped out to cover travel expenses and any other sundry expenses we may incure during the transaction, and balance of 75% for me.

If you are interested, quickly reply back with your telephone number for us to discuss more in confidence and arrange for a meeting.

Regards,

Mr. Forest.

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