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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: <mrdavidfrank@virgilio.it>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:46:18 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject:

Please Confirm Your Interest
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 212.199.254.242

My Dear Friend,
I am Mr. David Frank, the Auditor of United Bank for
Africa Plc (U.B.A). I have an obscured business suggestion for you. One
of our clients/personal friend, Late Mr. Kim Sean unfortunately lost
his life in the plane crash on January 31st 2000 including his wife
and his only daughter.

Late Mr. Kim Sean is a foreigner and the
manager of Granite Minning Nig, a chemical engineer by profession and
he died since the year 2000. No other person knows about this account
or anything concerning it. After further investigation it was also
discovered that Mr. Kim Sean's next of kin is his daughter who died
with him, hence the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proves to me as well that his company does not know
anything about this account and the amount involved is US$65 million.

I am contacting you to stand and act as the next of kin to Mr. Kim
Sean. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the
total amount, while 60% will be for me, and any expenses which you and
me may incur during the process of this transaction will also be
reconciled afterwards. Let me have your confidential Telephone, Fax and
mobile Numbers.
My private email is: (davidf5@i12.com)
Yours Truly,
Mr. David Frank.




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