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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: "Edward Spencer" <edward_spencer2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:54:39 +0000
Subject: TRANSFER OF US $22.5 MILLIONS.

Dear Friend

My name is Dr Edward Spencer with the Funds transfer Department.
Standard Chartered Bank in London. We had a Foreign Customer who deposited
a huge sum of money with our bank, who later died as a result of plane crash
in 1999. Before his death, He transfered the sum of US$22.5m (Twenty Two
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars). To our correspondent
bank in Spain. Since the death of this customer, I personally have watched
with keen interest to see the next of kin but all have proved abortive as no
one has come to claim this fund and our correspondence Bank has threatened
several times to return this funds of US$22.5M (Twenty Two Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States of Dollars) toward treasury. On this note, I
was contacted by the Accountant of our correspondence Bank in Spain.

Regards to this pending claims, that was why I decided to seek for whose
name shall be used as the next of kin. In view of this I got your contact
through the courtesy of Business Opportunity and through the inquiry from
Business sites after I was convinced by providence that you could be used as
the next of kin.

The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. I wait to assure you that
all official Related modalities to claim this funds has been carefully taken
care of, all we need is our cooperation and honesty as we are fronting you
to claim this funds as the next of kin to our Late customer.

We agreed that US$7 millions of this money will be for you as a foreign
partner, while the rest will be for us immediately the claim is
authenticated by the bank Board of Directors and the Funds release into your
account, I will visit your country for disbursement as I am almost due for
retirement.

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to your
account, you must provide as follows:

1) Your Account Bank Account Details for the funds.

2) Your private phone and Fax numbers.

3) Your mailing address.

This will enable us file in an application on your behalf as the next of kin
to the deceased.

Upon receipt of your response, we shall communicae the next step to take.
Endeavour to contact me through this. Due to the delicate nature of this
transaction, I strongly advice that you do not divulge this information to a
third party. Keep confidential.

Yours faithfully
DR Edward Spencer.

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