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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: "JANG DOOH-WAN" <jang_doohwan@koreamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jang_doohwan@excite.com
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:11:15 -0700
Subject: BUISNESS OPPORTUNITY

MR JANG DOOH-WAN




My name is JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN
DOO-HWAN, the former President of South Korea who ruled from 1979 to 1987. My brother was pushed
out of office and charged with treason ,corruption and embezzlement of
over 21billion won. He was wrongly sentenced to death but fortunately
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL stepped in and commuted the sentence to
life. We thank God that he has finally being released though both of us are presently under house
arrest in the sense of conditions of the freedom. During my brother,s
regime as president of South Korea, we realized some reasonable amount of
money from various contracts that we successfully executed. I have plans to
invest this money for my children’s future on real estate and industrial
production.
Before my brother was overthrown, I secretly siphoned the sum of
$15,000,000 million USD (Fifteen million United states dollars) out of Seoul
and deposited the money with an financial group in Europe. I am contacting you
because I want you to introduce you to the financial conpany to receive the
money on my behalf since I have declared that the fund belongs to my
foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist me in
investment in your country. I hope to trust you as a God fearing person
who will not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me
properly, I WILL OFFER YOU 10% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS A REWARD FOR YOUR EFFORTS.
When I receive your positive response I
will let you know where the finanacil group is and the payment pin code
to claim the money which is very important. What we need is to indicate
your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our
behalf in Europe or with special arrangement, you can get it transfered to
your bank by transfer .

As soon as the funds with
which we intend to carry out our proposed investments in your
country is in your bank account, we will map out plans on how to invest
the funds on real estate and other lucrative investments.
I will give you other informations as soon as i
received a response from you. thank for your anticipated coopration.


Yours faithfully,
Jang Doo-hwan

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