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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: "Murphy Sono" <murphysono@box.it>
Reply-To: murphysono@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:02:01 +0100
Subject: From Mr. Murphy Sono


>From Mr. Murphy Sono
Phone: +874-763-591545
Fax :  +874-763-591546

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a staff of Imperial Bank, Gueteng.I write to you following a slip in
my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.During a routine
check in my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of $8.5 Million
United States Dollars(Eight million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.MORRIS
THOMPSON an American who unfortunately lost his life in an Alaska's plane
crash of Flight 261 which crashed on January 31, 2000,including his wife
and only daughter.

Read more of this stories on this sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his Next
of Kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it on the condition of being his
Next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our Banking
guidelines.Unfortunately,I learnt that his supposed Next of Kin being his
only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with
the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in my
department now decided to transact business with you and release the
money to you as the Next of Kin or Beneficiary of the funds for safe
keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don’t want this money to go back into Government coffers as unclaimed
bill. I am quite aware that you are not related to him but I want you to
stand as the beneficiary since I have all the details for The transfer
proper.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money if
unclaimed after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.We agreed that 30% of this money will be for
you as foreign partner,while the balance will be for the facilitators.I
will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages
indicated above once this money gets into your account.

Please be honest to me and trust should be our watchword in this
transaction.Note,this transaction is legitimate and risk free.If  you are
interested and capable of handling this business,Please indicate to me
without delay.Please note that all necessary arrangements for the smooth
release of these funds to you has been finalised.We will discuss much in
details when I do receive your response.

Best Regards

Murphy.



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