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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: "Lindsay Town" <ldtw30@msn.com>
Reply-To: ltown04@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:29:36 +0000
Subject: Please contact me.

Bank Of Scotland.
The Mound Edinburgh
EHI, IYZ
UK.

Hello,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
ethics.

I will introduce myself as Mr. Lindsay Town, a staff in the accounts
management section of the above firm here in the United Kingdom.

One of our accounts with holding balance of £15,000,000(Fifteen Million
British Pounds) has been dormant and has not been operated for the past
four (4) years.

>From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, a
foreigner by name Kurt Kahle died in July, 2000 see this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
and since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this
money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of
neither the account nor the funds.

I have secretly discussed this matter with a senior official of this
company and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with.
We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of
these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after due processes
have been followed.

This transaction is totally free of risk and as the fund is legitimate and
does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal
act. On receipt of your response I will furnish you with detailed
clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit transaction.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you are
interested.

Mr. Town.

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