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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: "James Peter" <james_peter01@msn.com>
Reply-To: james_peter01@o2.pl
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:59:00 +0000
Subject: Classified-Proposition

33 New bottle St,
Houghton le spring,
DH4 A4P.
England, U.K

Dear Friend,
IMPERATIVE AND PRIVATE.
I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from
a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due
to the Urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:
We discovered an abandoned sum of GB£26,000,000.00 (Twenty-Six Million
Pounds) in an account that Belongs to one of our foreign customers his
was killed drive-by shooting in the Southern Dora. Since his death,
none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for
this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our Banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully
worked Out by us for the funds (GB£26, 000,000.00) to be released in your
favor as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may Interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
Business Endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Your name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate Departments for necessary approvals in your favor before the
transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 30%on final
conclusion
of this project, while the rest shall be for us. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, please response immediately, I await your urgent
response in this my private mail box

Best regards,
Mr. James Peter

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