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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: rooneytide@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:34:40 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

I am Major Andy S. Rooney, a senior officer with the
Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) of the
British Army presently based in Iraq. Having got great
affection and absolute appreciation for your human and
personality, I wish to contact you for help to
safeguard and bank this sum of $16.1m (Sixteen Million
One Hundred Thousand Dollars) into your account for
me, preferably we can split the sum into three bank
accounts if your account will not accommodate the
entire sum. Presently this money is in a security
vault in Europe.

On a routine assignment to one of Sadam Hussein¡¯s
numerous bunkers in Tikrit with two of my other
colleagues, we discovered two metal boxes containing
cash in United States Dollars and Gold. As military
personal, we are being forbidden by the Geneva
Convention on Warfare to possess or acquire any good
whatsoever from the invaded country as this could lead
to a Court Marshall. This is where your help and
assistance is needed.

With the help of my senior colleague, a lt. colonel
and a contractor/consultant of the Halliburton, a
company that brings supplies to the US military in
Iraq. We agreed to militarily seal the consignment for
onward carriage out of Iraq to a saver place of claim.
The content of the boxes where not revealed to the
contractor himself as it was secretly declared as
private possession with the help and connection of my
other colleague in the military for precaution
purposes. The beneficial/inheritance right goes to
anyone that we forward his/her name to the consultant.

You will be required to personally go to the firm in
Europe where the boxes are waiting to be claimed. We
shall provide you with needed information and
particulars to back up this claim. With the watchful
eyes of the contractor who helped shipped the boxes,
we shall agree on the sharing ratio after the release
of the consignment to your custody. Further
information will be given in subsequent
correspondences.

If capable to render this assistance, reach us through
the email addresses below:

andyroon@excite.com
andygusevin@netscape.net



Regards,

Andy Rooney (Major)



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