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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: "Charles Brown" <ctydlw00@msn.com>
Reply-To: charlesoffice01@katamail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:12:18 +0000
Subject: Private and Confidential. Please Get Back to me.

Greetings,

TRANSFER OF US$12,000,000 ( TWELVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ) INTO YOUR
ACCOUNT.

I am Mr. Charles Brown, a Solicitor at Law and the personal attorney to Late
Mr. Nabih El-Berriri, a Lebanese national. Late Mr. Nabih El-Berri was a
private oil consultant/contractor with the Shell Petroleum Development
Company in Venezuela before his death, hereinafter shall be referred to as
my client. My client and his wife along with their three children died in
the Plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou,
Benin Republic on 25th day of December 2003. You will read more stories
about the crash on visiting these websites:

<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash> / or
<http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/384/11653_Aircrash.htm> l

After this tragic plane crash, I conducted several enquiries from his
country's embassies to locate his next of kin or any of his extended
relatives, but all to no avail. The deceased made a deposits valued
presently at $12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million United States Dollars) and the
bank has issued me a notice as his attorney to provide his next of kin or
beneficiary by will, otherwise the account would be confiscated within the
next sixty working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my late client's relatives
for six (6) months now, I now seek your consent to present you as the next
of kin/beneficiary of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can
be paid to you.

I am willing to offer you 35% of the total sum as a reward for your efforts
in assisting me, while I take 50% of the total sum. The 5% of the fund will
serve as reimbursement of expenses both local and international any of us
will make in the course of this transaction. While we shall collectively
donate the remaining balance of 10% to Tsunami Relief Organisation.

Consider this proposal and get back to me as soon as possible so that I
furnish you with more details on how we shall proceed. Thus, provide me with
the following information:

1. Your telephone and fax numbers.
2. Your complete location address.

I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Charles Brown

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