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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: "Ferdinand Meyers" <info@myofficeuk.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:09:44 +0000
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE

MR. FERDINAND MEYERS
United Kingdom
Attention:
RE: PRIVATE AND URGENT.
My name is FERDINAND MEYERS, I am the credit manager in a bank here in
the United Kingdom. I am contacting you for a business transfer of a
huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and

worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care

off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact

you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in
an air crash along with his wife in 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian
airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from

the website below as published by CNN.

Thus:http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for
this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May
his soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek
your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as
all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds
(5,000,000.00) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's

next of kin.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following information if
you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name?.In order for me to prepare the document for
transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.For our personal contact and

mutual
trust in each other.
Upon your acceptance, I shall send you a copy of my international
passport and drivers license for more confidentiality and trust. I
shall also be compensating you with a million pounds (?1Million

pounds) on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while

the
balance ?14 million pounds shall be for me for investment purposes.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed

in you. I await your urgent mail to my personal

e-mail:mrferdinand105@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
FERDINAND MEYERS.

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