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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: "bell geoffrey" <bg_7560@msn.com>
Reply-To: bellgeoffrey110@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:18:24 +0000
Subject: HELLO FROM Geoffrey Bell

From: Geoffrey Bell
Private Email: bellgeoffrey@netscape.net
Subject: Inheritance Fund
Date: Nove 16th, 2005.

Dear Friend,

I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics, but
please treat it with absolute secrecy and personal courtesy. I am Geoffrey
Bell an Auditor of a commercial Bank here in the United Kingdom, in the
process of auditing our bank accounts I and one of my colleagues discovered
that there is a dormant account valued at the sum £10,700,000.00 (Ten
million seven hundred thousand British Pounds) and after due verification of
this account we discovered that the account owner is late and that is why
the account has been dormant and as such a £10,700,000.00 has been lying in
the bank unclaimed.

The idea of presenting somebody who is not related to our deceased customer
to act as his next of kin came into our mind, that is how and why we have
contacted you to present you as his next of kin, so that the £10,700,000.00
will be paid to you and we can both disburse the fund according to the
percentage we will agree on. In view of this, I am seeking for your
co-operation and understanding to stand as the next of kin to our deceased
customer, to enable us claim the fund from my bank. Hence, if this proposal
is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of my trust, then I
hope to bestow on you.

Please kindly get back to me immediately, strictly via my private email
address only: bellgeoffrey@netscape.net to enable me enlightens you on how
we are to proceed. On getting your response, we shall agree on the
percentage of disbursing the £18,700,000.00 between us, as we intend to
invest part of our own share in real estate business in your country, and we
would appreciate if you can put us in the right part investing in your
Country.

I will not contact any person or company until I hear from you, so as to
enable me decides on what to do next. Be rest assured that this business is
100% risk free.

We wait for your prompt response.

Regards,

Geoffrey Bell

NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE NOT RELATED TO MY LATE
CUSTOMER; THE FUND WILL STILL BE PAID TO YOU, SINCE WE ARE PRESENTING YOU AS
HIS NEXT OF KIN.

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