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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: "eloka peters" <leopz2005@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:16:37 +0000
Subject: beneficiary

Dear Friend,

I am ELOKA PETERS,the Bank's Accountant, Foreign Exchange and Treasury
Bills Department.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $5.5m
(five million Five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to our Late customer MR. MORRISON THOMSON who died in a plane crash on
Alaska Airlines flight 261 returning from a vacation in Mexico killing all
on board.you can read more on the site below:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
This proposal to you,is to release the money to you as the next of kin or
Business Partner to the desease for safety and subsequent Since we got
information about his death, the bank have been expecting his Next Of kin
to
come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relative to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines.

But unfortunately, we learnt that Morris died alongside with his Next Of
kin, his wife, Thelma, and his daughter Sheryl, who passed on with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and the Bank's Attorney, who controls WILLED-FUND
DOCUMENTS/DISKETTE decided to place you as the Next Of kin to the
deceased.

The Required information are your safe contact Address,Home or office, as
nobody is coming for it. and we do not want this money to go into the
Governments treasury as unclaimed.

Honesty and Trust is our watchward,and for your assistance,we have humbly
marped out 30% to you for providing an account, 10% will be set aside for
expenses incured on both side during the business and 60% will be for us.

Thereafter, I and my Partner will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated above. For the smooth and immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you are implored to apply first
to the lawyer as a business partner,Then Office, Telephone and Bank Account
Co-ordinates (if any).

It is important to let you know that your willing application will be
forwarded to the Bank's Lawyer/Adviser who is in charge of ALL Willed-
Fund Documents/Diskette. He is in a good psition to change All paperworks
in
your favour as the Next Of Kin Beneficiary and present it to the Bank for
expedite actions.

I count on your assistance in this business and remain bless.

Best Regards.
ELOKA PETERS

Please send your kind response to my alternative email for safety
betterdayz050@yahoo.co.uk

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