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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: "GEORGE MARTINS" <georgemartins11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: georgemartins11@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:52:56 -0900
Subject: CONFIDENTIALITY AND TRUST.

Good Day ,

I am Barrister George Martins, of ANDREW & 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 31,1999.

In the vital documents relating to the deposit, there was no iformation
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 my email
address for further information.

Thanking you in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours faithfully.

Barr.George Martins.

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