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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: "awele lucky" <awele_lucky2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: awelelucky21@ozu.es
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:08:38 +0100
Subject: Business Relationship

ATTN:Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr Lucky Awele the Manager, Credit and Foreign
bills of Regent Bank Plc.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank
with account number 14-255-114 whose name is Joung
Heasook, Korea who perished in a plane crash[Korean Air
Flight 801] with the whole passengers aboard on August
6,1997.And for your perusal you can view thisweb site:-
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list


Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has
watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all
has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds
of US$25.5M (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thoudsand
United States Dollars) which has been with my branch for a
very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be
used as the Nex t of Kin as no one has come up to be the
next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow
such money to stay more than eight years, because money
will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after
this period. In view of this I got your contact through a
trade journal

I will give you 30% of the total. Upon the receipt of your
response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the
application, bank's fax number and the next step to take.I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this business
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear
as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized
within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as a
relation to the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail
signifying your decision including your private Tel/Fax
numbers for quick communication.

Please Reply-To awelelucky21@ozu.es

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Lucky Awele.


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