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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: "frank lanker" <franklanker_21@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:47:34 +0200
Subject: RE:CONTACT ME

#123CB/PBV,MAIN CITY,
BOKSBURG SOUTH,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Dear Friend,

Do not be perplexed with this note. It's all about
soliciting your attention to transfer the sum of
{$26Million USD},and {$6M.USD} will be transferred
first after a solid agreement between us.

I am Mr.Frank Lanker, an Auditor General (AG), an
equivalent of American Certified Public Accountant
{C.P.A}. I believe that we can do this business
without any hitches, if only you will be trusted and
then follow simple instructions for a smooth success
of this business.

I have a solid master plan/arrangements on how best to
actualize this objective. So, I am not trying to
experiment with a transaction of this nature and
magnitude, for such an opportunity will not/never ever
come my way again in my lifetime. My fear now is if
this money will be safe in your hand/custody pending
my physical arrival in your country for
sharing and investments.

You can provide either an existing bank account or set
up a new bank a/c immediately to receive this money.
Even an empty a/c without any money in it can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest
to me till the end of this important business,
trusting in you that you will never let me down either
now or in future.

If we agree and never to disagree, you will stand to
get 35%, 5% for local and International expenses
incurred by both parties on the course of the
transfer, while the balance of 60% will be for me.

Note: The owner of this account is Mr. Howard
Sweeney,a foreigner and a miner.He made millions
of dollarsbefore he died misteriously .Since 1993
no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it.

My investigation proved to me that the account has no
other beneficiary and that Mr. Howard Sweeney until
his death was the manager Sweeney Coy.(pty). SA.

The deceased died without oral or written "WILL" and
without any "HEIR". The deceased is a foreigner and
because he is a foreigner, this fund cannot be released to
an indegene here or an indigenous bank a/c here, IT MUST
BE A FOREIGNER WITH A VALID BANK ACCOUNT.

So it is based on this that you are contacted.

As you know INHERITANCE is not a crime all over the
world, but may be a crime only when you did not follow
the Rules of the International Law of Inheritance. In
this transaction we shall follow strictly all the rules of
the International Law of Inheritance and obtain all the
necessary transaction documents from the appropriate
authorities to prove that the inheritance/fund is genuine.

I am waiting for your urgent reply.

Yours Faithful,
Mr. Frank Lanker

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