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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: "Charles Hickman." <c_hickman07@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: c_hickman07@walla.com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:37:38 -0700
Subject: Good Day.

MR. CHARLES HICKMAN,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT. FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARMENT.
J.P.MORGAN LONDON UK. (CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE).

COMPLIMENT OF THE 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 and my colleague have decided on what to do as
regards this great transaction matter. I am MR CHARLES HICKMAN, the
manager Bills and Exchange under foreign remittance department of
J.P.MORGAN LONDON UK. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my
department. We discovered an abandoned sum of US20.5M that belong to
one of our foreign customer 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 site
below: <http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/>
Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for the deposit. I will fly down to
your country once this fund is in your account for sharing and
setting up of investement in your country but we are going to sign a
binding agreement before this so that you can receive this money into
your foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund
will be safe and I will fly to your country for withdrawal and
sharing investments.To commence this transaction, we shall require
you to immediately indicate your interest by a return response of
your full detail and information's.

My warm regards,

MR CHARLES HICKMAN.
J.P.MORGAN LONDON U.K.

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