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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: "Mervyn King" <info_001976@msn.com>
Reply-To: mervynkingjr_uk@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:42:14 +0000
Subject: FROM MR MERVYN KING

FROM MR MERVYN KING
GOVERNOR,BANK OF ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
+447040114029
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/overview.htm

My Dear ,
I'm sorry for not seeking your permission before directing this
proposal to you.I am MR MERVYN KING the GOVERNOR ,BANK OF ENGLAND .
What I have for you is an urgent transaction that involves the sum of
GBP30M.
We discovered this huge amount of money in our bank deposited by our foreign
customer who
died in an aircrash on November 15, 2000 with his family when Antonov plane
crashes in Angola, leaving 41 dead .
{http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/12/11/angola.planecrash.ap/}.
All effort to get at the nearest next of kins to this man prove
abortive.

However,As the GOVERNOR of the BANK,I have decided with the concept of
my Deputy Governors ,{Sir Andrew Large and Rachel Lomax } in the office
and with the assistance of a foriegner to use the documents in my office
and transfer this money out of the country and share it among ourselves. We
have tried to get this money out of the bank but could not as it requires an
assistance of a foriegner who will recieve this money on our behalf.It
is at this point that we made up our mind to reach out to you ;so that you
could assist us recieve this money in your our country as soon as it is
transfered.

We have agreed to make an offer of 30% of the total fund to you if you
would assist us in this transaction.I will like to state here that there is
no form of risk involved in this transaction on your own side as a
foreigner .As soon as you confirmed that it has arrived to your location,I
and my
colleagues will be in your country to share it as we have stated
earlier on. Get back to me as soon as possible through email or you can give
me a
call in my cell phone number for more clarification.Where you could not be
able to call me,kindly forward your own number,I will be glad to call you
after office work to explain this well to you.
Thanks and remain blessed.
MR MERVYN KING
GOVERNOR,BANK OF ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM

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