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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: "Ambruce Princewill" <ambruceprincewill_esq@msn.com>
Reply-To: ambruceprincewill_esq@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:12:30 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE TO ACT AS NEXT OF KIN TO MR SEAN BURKE.

Dear,


I am Barrister Ambruce Princewill, a lawyer with the Association of Catholic
Lawyers, a legal Solicitor. I am writing in respect of my client who
perished in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers
aboard on August 6, 1997.

Since the demise of my client Mr. Sean John Burke, I personally have
searched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved
abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of $.9.5million, [Nine
Million and Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars] which has been with
the bank for a very long time and it is only on the application of a
foreigner as the next of kin can this funds be released, if not i would have
carried out the transaction myself.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics
here does not allow such money to stay, right now the bank has given me a
deadline to produce the next of kin or the funds would be rendered
unserviceable and be confiscated. In view of this I contacted you through a
trade journal of your country since you and my deceased client are national
of the same country. I will give you 40% of the total.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. I am not imposing this
transaction on you, It is a thing of self willingness, so it is either you
write me back and tell me you are willing and I will know the next step to
take because this fund must be claimed either with your help or the help of
somebody else.

I will require your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Contact me via my private email
( ambruceprincewill_esq@yahoo.com) to enable us discuss further.

Thanks and God bless,

Best Regards,

Barrister Ambruce Princewill.(SAN)

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