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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: "mohamed musa" <mohamedmusa004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mohamedmusa3@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:19:40 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF:MR.MOHAMED MUSA,

FROM THE DESK OF:MR.MOHAMED MUSA,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(A.D.B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,
WEST AFRICA.


My dear
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum
of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day.

I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION; I discovered an abandant sum of $15.5M(FIFTEEN MILLION Five
Hundred thousand United states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his
death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims
to this money as the heir.

I cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim
as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by
me for the funds $15.5M(FIFTEEN MILLION Five Hundred thousand United states
Dollars) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that I have secured from the probate an order of
madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable me file a letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can
be made. I shall be compensating you with 40% percent on final conclusion of
this project, while the rest 60% percent shall be for me. Your share stays
with you while the rest shall be for me for investment purposes in your
country.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent email.

Regards,
MR MOHAMRD MUSA.

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