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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: "smith johnson" <smithjude_01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: smith_jude02@yahoo.de
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:16:58 +0000
Subject: very urgent info !


Dear Sir,
I am Barrister Smith Jude, of Judes, ROBERTS & ASSOCIATES, Southampton,
U.K.I write and intend to solicit your assistance to have you presented as
NEXT OF KIN to one of my late clients.

Mr. Edmund Miller of No. 5 Hyde Park, London who died intestate and had a
fixed Deposit of about £9.8M (Nine million eight hundred thousand British
Pounds Sterling); with Natwest Bank London, England. His death occured
aboard 'Air Egypt' Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on
October 31,199.In the vital documents relating to the deposit, there was no
information relating to a beneficiary to the deposit in the case of his
death but all the deposit documents were kept in my care being his lawyer.

The Governing Body of the bank has contacted me on this matter and I am yet
to provide them with a legitimate next-of-Kin to lay claims to this
fund.Under a clear and legitimate agreement with you, I now seek your
consent to have you presented as the next of Kin so that his fund will not
be confisticated by the bank.Upon acceptance to carry out this claim with
me, feel free to contact me immediately on the above number or my email
address:for further information.
Thanking you in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Phone: +44 7031905007.

Barr. Smith Jude.

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