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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: "MR KHAN PETER" <khan_peter02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: khan_peter004@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:35:11 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP.

ATTN.
I am Mr. Khan Peter a British citizen; I’m a merchant and owned two
businesses in UK. I’m married with two children. My wife and two children
died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened my business and
concern for making money was all I lived for. I never really cared about
other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new
desire to assist helpless families.
I have been helping orphans in orphanage/ motherless homes. I have donated
some money to orphans in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Spain,
Austria Germany and some Asian countries like Tsunami. Before I became ill.
I kept some money, Five million dollars ($5million) to be precise in a
long-term deposit account in a security courier company in Europe UK London.
Presently, I am in a hospital. My doctors told me I have prostate cancer
that I have a few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money
distributed to charity organizations. Because so much of my wealth hasbeen
plundered by relatives and friends since my illness, I cannot live with the
agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them since the money
in the security courier company is the last fund that I have left I am some
how I‘m much pains and regrets in the hospital because my friends and
relative have misuse all my funds that I left in their possession.
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit from the
Security Courier Company in Europe and distribute it amongst charity
organizations.Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it
to yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any
cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money
to charity organizations. May the good Lord bless you and your family? If
this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust
I have bestowed in you. I humbly await your response.
Remain Blessed.
Mr. Khan Peter.

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