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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: "Ben Baldey" <ben_baldey@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:28:00 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal

Sir,

I write this unsolicited mail to you in abundance of
confidence and on the basis of mutual trust with the
hope that everything discussed in it shall be kept
completely confidential.

My real name is Benjamin Baldey a personal attorney
to the late Mr.Jean Panetta who died in a fatal
accident with his entire family.

Since his demise,I have made tremendous efforts to
locate any of his relatives but all to no avail.The
only survivor,his 2nd daughter who could have
inherited her father's wealth also gave up shortly on
hearing the incredible and terrible news.

Having made a futile effort in seeking any of his(my
client's)family lineage,I thought it imperative to
contact you and to crave your indulgence to present
you as the next of kin to my late client.

However,I am contacting you for four cogent reasons
1 My late client,Mr.Jean Panetta,until his untimely
death had a deposit of Ten Million Dollars ($10m) in the bank.
2 Considering the fact that two of you have the same
nationality.
3 The bank is bent on declaring the account
unserviceable in a bid to confiscate the money and
4 There is every documentation at my disposal as his
attorney to make this claim.

Once you have indicated interest in this
transaction,then I shall proceed according to the
plan.

All I want from you is your unalloyed
cooperation,ability to keep secrets and a promise that
you will not resort to blackmail as soon as the $10m
is lodged to your account.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Ben Baldey(esq)
Note: You can further contact me via: bdewin@yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:bdewin@yahoo.co.uk>


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