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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: "roll maxwell" <rol_74@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:26:32 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY ON TRUST AND INTERGRITY

From:ROLAND WOODROW(ESQ).
WOODROW & ASSOSCIATES,
4 Albert Embankments, London
SE1 7SR,United Kingdom.
EMAIL:rol_eff@yahoo.com

GOOD DAY,

I am BARR.ROLAND WOODROW(ESQ),the personal Attorney to Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who
unfortunately lost his life including his wife and only daughter in the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,.
You can read more about the crash by visiting the web site which I got
during my
investigation;http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client's
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the internet,
to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind by
my client before they got confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
Finance House where this huge deposits were lodged.most worrisome is that
the Finance House where the deceased had an account valued at about US$15M
has issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over nine (9)
months now, I seek your consent to present your details(account] as the next
of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$15M
will be paid to you and we split the money; 60% to me and 35% to you, while
5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim,
all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law and i have
arranged for the removal and distruction of all relating documents as soon
as the money hits your account.


Anticipating your prompt response.

Yours Sincerely,

BARR.ROLAND WOODROW ESQ
TEL/FAX 44-870-134-3985.

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