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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: "William Brook" <wvbrook@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:54:32 +0000
Subject: ING BANK, NETHERLAND

ING BANK, NETHERLAND
Tel/Fax: 00 31 847 547 225
E-mail: wvbrook2001@netscape.net





Dear Sir

I am Mr. William Van Brook an employee of ING Bank here in Netherlands. I
have
urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. In January 2001,
an American oil
consultant/contractor (Lewis Hess) made a numbered-time (fixed deposit) for
twelve calendar months valued at
(US$ 8,500 million) in a domiciliary account in my branch. Upon maturity, I
sent a routine notification
of account status to his forwarding address but got no reply, after two
months, we sent a reminder of
same letter and finally we discovered from his contact employers, Sofimation
Oy, a Finland company based
here in the Netherlands that Mr. Lewis Hess died in auto crash.

After further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and
all
attempts to trace his kin were fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that he did not
declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his bank
deposit papers. This sum of
US$8,500,000.00 is still floating in our bank and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal sum at the
end of each year.

After these several attempts, I decided to track his last name over the
Internet, to locate any member of
his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in securing
this money before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank. It's therefore, upon
discovery
that I decided to make business with you and release the money to you as
next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safe keeping and subsequent disbursement, since nobody is
coming for it and I don't
want this money go back into Government's account as unclaimed bill.

Note that it does not necessarily matter, whether you are biologically
related
to the deceased or not. As you may bear with me, a next of kin maybe a
parent, sister, brother, close
relative, associate, friend or even a well-wisher. So, whether you are
related to him or not is never a barrier
to realizing the transaction.

This transaction is aimed at investing in a blue chip company in your
country or
any other country under a joint business partnership with you. But if you
want certain percentage of the
deposit for your involvement, please do let me know so that we negotiate on
your share. Once the
deposit is secured, thereafter, I will visit your country USA for the
investment thereof.

I expect a positive response from you soonest via my contact above.

Thanks,
William Van Brook

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