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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Paul Martins" <paulmartinsx4@msn.com>
Reply-To: paulmartinsxx@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:11:25 +0000
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of bill and exchange Foreign Operations Department of
Natwest London. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will
be of imense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of (Ten million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our oreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson
an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and
only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site
which I got during my investigation;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately I learnt that
his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the
claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in
this department now decided to make business with you and release the money
to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don??want this
money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law
and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after five years the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
funds.

We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for my colleagues and I. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets int your account. Please be honest to me. Note this transaction
is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should
contact me through my e-mail address. Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you as has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.

Best regards
Paul Martins

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