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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: "Barrister Williams Sani." <ssssani@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mbbv12@excite.com
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:10:22 +0100
Subject: Tsunami Disaster.

FROM ; WILLIAM SANI

IMPERATIVE AND PRIVATE.
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 the sum of US$32,500,000.00 (Thirty-Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that Belongs to one

of our foreign customers MR. ASBJORN HASEN who died in the just recent
tsunami disaster. 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 funds 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$32,500,000.00) to be released in your

favor as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may Interest you to know that

we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual Business Endeavor by furnishing me with the
following;

1. Your 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 favor before the

transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 30% on finalconclusion

of thisproject,while the rest shall be for us. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, please respond immediately, I await your urgent
response in my alternate email box: mbbv12@excite.com

For more details as to the proof of death you can access the web link
below.

www.scandasia.com/view.php?id=1285&im=fi
<http://www.scandasia.com/view.php?id=1285&im=fi>

Best regards,

Mr. william sani.






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