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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: "Mr Smith Andrew" <ansmit200532@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: smitanprivatebox2005@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:26:22 +0200
Subject: Contact Me Fast.

220 Balham High Road
Central London W17 7BQ
United Kingdom.
+44-7236740312
smitanprivatebox2005@yahoo.co.uk

Hello,
I know that this mail will come to you out of the blue as a total surprise.
Well, I have a business proposal which I believe might interest you. I
believe that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid to transfer
the sum of (£18.5M.) Eighteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand British Pounds into a foreign bank account.

I am Mr Smith Andrew,an Auditor of a bank here in London.During the course
of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1999 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account.After a lot
of investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank account died
without a beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of the account is a foreigner. He died since 2000 and the bank
account has no other beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody
knows about this account or anything concerning it. So I want to grab this
opportunity, as it is no harm to nobody.

I am here soliciting for your assistance as a foreigner because the money
cannot be approved to anybody here. But It can be approved to a foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license
and foreign bank account because the former owner of the account is a
foreigner. The management must approve this payment to you if you have the
correct information of this account, which I will give to
you,upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable
and will meet up with instruction of key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this project.

With my influence and the position of the bank officials, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending
our physical arrival at your end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign
bank account or an empty account can serve to receive this money.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be give 20% of the total
amount, 75% will be for the bank official and I, while 5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during the course of this
transaction. May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I
will inform you the next step to take. Send also your private phone and fax
number including the full details of the bank account to be used for
thedeposit.You can call me now.
phone..+44-7236740312

Regards.
Mr Smith Andrew.

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