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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "gergory popo" <gerpopoer@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gergorypopo@OFFICER.COM
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:46:54 -0400
Subject: I look forward to pick your mail.

Dear Baum,

My name is Gregory Pope and I work with a Commercial Bank here in
London-England.We had a customer (John Baum) that had a deposit of 3.5M
Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Pound Sterlings GBP) before he died in a
plane crash with his wife and only Child about 4years now (January 30,2000)
and since he died, we in the Bank here have been expecting his/her next of
kin/relative(s) for the inheritance of the deposit, but none has surfaced.

The policy of the Bank however stipulates a limited time period for such
inheritance to be made or the fund will be written off going by the record
of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up. In this
consideration, I am contacting you to seek for your kind understanding and
sincere co-operation to claim this iheritance for our mutual benefit in view
of the fact that you have the same LAST NAME with the deceased customer
comes from the same country of origin with you.

If you can stand as the next of kin in this project, success is assured
because I am in possession of the personal file jacket of the deceased which
contains every needed information about the deceased account, you and I
stand no risk of any kind because I have enough information to support you
in claiming the inheritance.

The proceedings of the transaction will be shared 50% each after expenses
are reimbursed. Kindly indicate your willingness and we shall proceed with
the initial step for the claim.The entire project is expected to last for
about ten working days.



Best Regards,

Mr.Gregory Pope.



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