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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: "Albert Brown" <abrown04@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:09:08 +0200
Subject: PLEASE CALL ME

FROM:ALBERT BROWN

TEL:+27-82-547-5005

KEEP AS CONFIDENTIAL

Attention:Sir/Madam

I am a staff of bank in Africa. I will give you the name of my bank and
other important information if I receive a positive reply from you. For
security reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to you now until I am
sure of your cooperation. I work in the operations dept where I serve as
account officer to numerous customers. One of the customers whom I worked as
his account officer was a wealthy diamond merchant from neighboring Sierra
Leone. He lost his family in the war. He was lucky to escape alive and came
to this country with his wealth intact. Unfortunately he died last year.

Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it uponmyself to
travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of his close
relations . On reaching there I discovered that his only surviving uncle
died a few months back. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the
bank knew I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official
report of my findings in South Africa.

Now there are two things I could do with regards to the dead mans money.
First, as his accounts officer, I could formally notify the bank authorities
that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case the money would be
forfeited to the government after some time. As a matter of fact this is the
proper thing I am supposed to do.

Another thing I can do is to arrange for someone else, a foreigner, to act
as the next of kin of the late man so that he will claim the money. This is
the option that I can do to help anybody and myself since the money actually
is public fund due to the fact that my friend was a close lly to the late
brutal military president that looted government treasury and that is why I
have chosen to do it. I want you to be my partner. All you would have to do
is act as the next of kin of the dead man and the whole money in the account
will be transferred to your account. As the accounts officer to the late
man, I have all the necessary documents that you will require to claim the
money in the account.

The total money in the account is USD17(MILLION DOLLARS).Your share will be
40% which is USD6,800,000. My own share will be 60%, which is
USD11,200,000.(MILLION DOLLARS)Please reach me immediately by call and email
so that I can give you further details.Also provide me your direct tel/fax
to reach you.
Yours truly,

ALBERT BROWN.
0027-82-547-5005



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