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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: "tara fahd" <tara_fahd@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:39:41 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

I am delighted to write this letter to you based on your profile conviction,
hoping you will understand my predicament and answer back without hesitation
since I am convince you must be an honest and trusted fellow who will help
save my life and my only son; hence our country has been frustrating us
since the death of my husband.

I am MRS TARA FAHD, the wife of the late KING FAHD, the former king of Saudi
Arabia. I am in possession of $6,500,000.00 (SIX MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) which I want to invest in your country. For your
clarification and understanding, this money is in a bank, which I deposited
with a Clearing House in LONDON disguise as a family effect since 6th of
February 2002 before the death of my husband, Mind you that is not an ill
gotten wealth rather it was generated by my late husband from over twenty
years of his Service and business relationship. On your acceptance to render
this assistance to me, I will contact my son to instruct the bank in LONDON
to effect a change of ownership of this fund in your name as the bona-fide
owner/my next of kin to enable you retrieve the fund on behalf of me and my
family to your country to make good arrangement for any profitable joint
business investment pending my arrival with my son to your country after you
have transferred this fund. Bear in mind that this transaction demands
absolute confidentiality because properties, assets and bank accounts
bearing the FAHD family name, are being ordered to be confiscated by the
newly elected king of Saudi Arabia.Hence I will not want to be exposed for
security reasons. I am only revealing this to you with believing in God that
you will not let me and my only son down now or in future if this money gets
to you because this is the only hope of our future survival since our bread
winner are no more.

For your knowledge, 1 % of this total amount has been set aside for all the
expenses you might incur during the process of securing this fund. Example:
TELEPHONE BILLS, HOTEL BILLS, FLIGHT BILLS, and other miscellaneous
expenses. Try and negotiate for some profitable blue chip investment
opportunities which is risky free which I think we can invest with part of
this money when it is transferred. Personally I am interested in estate
management and hotel business, please contact my son (JUBRIL FAHD) who was
lucky to escape from Saudi Arabia to Spain with the Certificate of the claim
Deposit, where he is now staying and studying at their university on his
email address (jubril_fahd@yahoo.co.uk) for details procedure.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Tara Fahd.



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