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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: Robin Quest <r_quest2@email.ro>
Reply-To: r_quest22@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:45:37 +0300
Subject: Urgent Reply.

Office of Auditor General,
CITIBANK,
364 Kensington High St
London
W14 8NS

Dear Friend,

I am Dr. Robin Quest the Chief auditor general
of CITIBANK 364 Kensington High St London W14 8NS. I have urgent and
very confidential business proposition for you. On May 20, 1999, an
Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLUEM
CORPORATION Mr. Dara Baraz. Made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 24
calendar months, valued at US$32,200,000.00 (Thirty two Million two
hundred thousand dollars only) in this bank. Upon maturity in 2001, I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr. Dara
Baraz died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during
one of his trips to his country Iraq. On further investigation, I found
out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his
next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and
discovered that mr Dara Baraz did not declare any kin or relations in
all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my
Bank.

This sum of US$32,200,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed
since 1999 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the
stones. According to the British law at the expiration of 6 (six)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of the British Government
if nobody applies to claim the fund and the six years is the end of
September 2005

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