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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: "CITI BANK" <infocitibk@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:49:39 +0000
Subject: Tax Documentation.

Dear Sir/Ma,
As a confirmation, we have in our possession your claims file from the
industrial and commercial bank of china and security company, and are
obligated to see to the processing of the tax clearance certificate that
facilitated crediting of your money amounting to us$1,600,000 .00 (one
million, six hundred thousand united states dollars only) to your account.

We hereby to inform you that the issue of tax clearance certificate came up
when china Inland Revenue department attributed law on a personal income on
fund crediting from china to an oversea.
The requirement to pay bond coverage is not voluntary and is clearly set
forth in section 4 of the china banking system.

Furthermore, Inland Revenue department securitization forum has filed a
letter to the bank/s expressing the securitization concerns about an impact
of international financial reporting standards on the transferring of fund
to oversea.
The IRS will continue monitoring such fund as this is to secure
international convergence on revisions to regulations and standards
governing the capital adequacy of internationally active banking
organizations in china.
Failure to submit the document could subject to none complying as the law
stipulate to avoid the fund being send to laundering section.

Your prompt response is expected.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Tang Wai Yu.



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