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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: grg colvin <grg_colvin@midwar.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:15:50 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: CAN I CIONFIDE IN YOU?

Mr. George Colvin
Head,Corporate Finance
HSBC Bank,London UK.

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

Dear Friend.
I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I
am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$11,500,000.00 (Eleven
million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr. Andreas
Schranner from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire
family in Jully 2000. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as
the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now
seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the
deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by
us for the funds (US$11,500,000.00) to be released in your
favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to
know that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus
to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.

For refrence Please go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our
mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address 2. Direct Telephone and fax
numbers These requirements will enable us file letter of claim
to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your
favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating
you with two million dollars on final conclusion of this
project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while
the rest shall be for us for investment purposes. If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr. George Colvin.


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