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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: "Colin Rafeal" <colinrafeal2004@ubsfinancehouse.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:37:08 +0000
Subject: Good Day

Dear Friend,

I am Colin Rafeal the General Auditor of UBS Investment Bank 1-2 Finsbury
Avenue, London EC2M
2PP. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.There
is this floating funds which is to the tune of Nine Million Five hundred
Thousand Pounds only (9,500,000.00 Pounds) Which as been floating in this
A/C nº 5005874BS1000 since 2000 after the death of the true owner of the
funds Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American who was a private business man
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261 which crashed on January 31st 2000, including his wife and only
daughter.

You can read more about the crash on visiting these sites.
below.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

I just came across his file again when I was auditing all the credit account
in UBS Investment Bank, and I found out that nobody as ever come on behalf
of the Late Mr. Morris Thompson as his next of kin to claim the funds. And
I have been monitoring this account since I discovered this
information. In this case I have concluded to contact you if you are
reliable to execute this
transaction with me, then I will instruct you on how to claim as the next of
kin to the late
Mr.Morris thompson,so that the funds could be transfer to your overseas
A/C, if only you can
co-operate with me and not to betray me at the end.

For your information the transfer payment to apply for as the next of kin
should be Nine Million
Five hundred Thousand Pounds only (9,500,000.00 Pounds) As soon as you
confirm your interest and co-operation,I will give you the guide lines on
how you can transact with the bank for the
approval of the funds to your A/C.

When everything as been put in place for the transfer I will apply for an
annual leave to obtain
a visa to travel to your country for my share of the funds and the sharing
of the funds is 55%
for me, 35% for you,5% for Orphanage Home and the remaining 5% will be for
expenses incurred
during the transaction.

As soon as i receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual
business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary modalities. You can
contact me with this
email address: colinrafeal45@yahoo.com

I await your soonest response.

Thanks.

Mr.Colin Rafeal
Auditor General UBS Investment Bank

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