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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 MICHEAL DUNN" <DUNN@ARABTOP.NET> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrmicheal_gdunn@arabtop.net
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:06:18 -0700
Subject: HOW ARE YOU FRIEND ?CAN YOU BE MY BENEFICIARY?

MR. MICHEAL DUNN
OPPERATIONAL DISTRICT MANAGER.
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED (NAB)
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BRANCH

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 onfidentiality, while browsing the internet after I have decided on what to do as regards this golden opportunity, deal and business matter.

I am MR MICHEAL DUNN operational district manager of NATIONAL BANK AUSTRALIA LIMITED (NBA) I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department since we are in conjuction with NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES to pay off all unclaimed money in NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK as from they year 1999-2004.

I discovered an abandoned large sum waiting to be claimed in NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED (NAB) the total sum of $232m in a forgotten bank Account in New South Wales in conjuctioins with NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

I have documents in my possession belonging to one of the victims MR. WILLIAM KNUDSON who has the total sum of US20.5M. in fixed deposite account. 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 sites below:
(1) http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

(2) Www.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/byheadline/Unclaimed+money+from+banks%2C+building+societies+and+credit+unions?openDocument

(3)www.fido.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/byheadline/Looking+for+lost+money%3F?openDocument

Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full details of your account to be used for the deposit. I want us to 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 take some weeks leave from my bank to fly to your country upon a formal confirmation from you that you have recieved the total sum of $20.5M in your account for withdrawal and sharing which i will like to invest in your country .

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately
indicate your interest by a return response of your account detail and informations in which this fund will be transferd to.

My warm regards,
MR MICHEAL DUNN
OPPERATIONAL MANAGER (NAB)
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BRANCH.

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