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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: "STEPHEN AYLING" <stephenayling9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stephenayling@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:38:02 +0000
Subject: PROPOSITION


Dear Friend,

Greetings to you.

I wish to accost you with a request that would be of immense benefit to both
of us. Being an executor of wills, it is possible that we may be tempted to
make fortune out of our client's situations, when we cannot help it, or left
with no better option. The issue I am presenting to you is a case of my
client who willed a fortune to his next-of-kin. It was most unfortunate that
he and his next-of-kin died on the same day the 31st October 1999 in an
Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this
from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.

WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm.

I am now faced with confusion of who to pass the fortune to.
According to the English law, the fortune is supposed to be bequeathed to
the government,if nobody comes forward as the next of kin within seven years
of the demise of the benefactor of the will. My purpose of contacting you is
to seek your acting as the beneficiary of the will, and lay claim to the
legacy of $7million, which my deceased client bequeathed to his
next-of-kin. For now, I alone know about his will, as my client had great
confidence in me.

Everything will be left between you and I. The share would be 25% for you
and 75% for me. I would want to give a huge part of my share to the tsunami
victims,
as this is my primary objective. All I have to do is amend the will or add a
codicil to make you the beneficiary to the $7million legacy.

Again, I feel that you may apprehensive and consider this amount too big for
you to defend. It does not matter, as there are documents to back it up.
This is a legacy being passed on to a next-of-kin. As I am not very sure of
getting your consent on the issue I prefer not to divulge my full identity
so as not to risk being disbarred. The English Bar considers it a breach of
the oath of the English Bar. I need not emphasize to you that the
sensitivity of this issue need not be toyed with by neglecting its
confidentiality. I therefore appeal to you not discuss this request with
anybody, even if you decline my request.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours truly

Stephen Ayling.

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