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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: "finance remittance department"
<remittance_department@standard-charteredbank.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:24:42 +0000
Subject: A matter of urgency...

From The Desk Of Mr.Tai Wang.
The Manager, Bills/Exchange Foreign
Remittance & finance Department.
HONG KONG

Dear Sir/Madam
I am really sorry if this mail gets to you without any notice. As a matter
of urgency, I want to seek your urgent assistance in business proposal. It
has become really difficult to get a reliable person/investor to assist in
business matters, because of the hug rate of scams that we hear about every
day. First I will introduce myself to you.
I am Mr.Tai Wang,The manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance &
finance department, Standard Chartered Bank.
HongKong.(www.standardcharteredbank.com) I am writing this letter to ask for
your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my
department. I discovered an abandoned huge sum of money $18,000, 000.00
Eighteen Million
United State Dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers, this customer is from your country, he died in a Plane crash
october 31, 1999 [With Egyptian Airline 990] with other Passengers Aboard as
you can comfirm it by yourself through this web site.
(www.greatdreams.com/plane990.htm)

Since I heard the news, I have been expecting the Next-of-kin to come over
and put claims for the money as the heir, because I cannot release the fund
from the account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither
their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said
fund.Upon this discovery, I have agreed to make business with you and
release the total amount into your Bank account as the heir to the
fund since no one came for it or discovered to maintained the account with
our Bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the Banks treasury as
unclaimed Benefit.I have agreed to compensate you handsomely process Upon
the successful completion of this transaction.
To commence this transaction, I require you to mmediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail to enable me file in a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals.
Note also, this transaction must be Urgent because of its nature. I look
forward to receiving your prompt response.Your correspondance should be sent
to my
personal Email: taiwang50@cooperation.net
Please treath with reserve and upmost maturity
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Tai Wang

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