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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: "Peter Wallace" <peterjwallace@hbwchambers.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:05:11 +0000
Subject: Notification of Bequest

From: Peter Wallace, Esq.(For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Herbert & Wallace)
London - United Kingdom.

Notification of Bequest.

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.
Martin Wilczek, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was
returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email
address on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Martin Wilczek
made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Five Million One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$5,100.000.00 ) to you in the codicil and last
testament to his will.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true. Being a widely travelled man, he must have been in contact with you in
the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends
abroad who wished you good. Engr. Martin Wilczek until his death was a
former managing director and pioneer staff of a giant construction company
(JULIUS BERGER). He was a very dedicated Christian who loved to give out.
His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time.
Engr. Martin Wilczek died on the 9th day of February 2004 at the age of 90
years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him this money
is to help the poor and the needy.

Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as
soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. It is most preferable that
you contact me via my personal email address, peterwallace5@excite.com. Also
do send me your telephone number so I can call you for further clarification
on this matter. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.

Yours in His Service,

Peter Wallace, Esq.

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