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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: "west jerry" <westjerry006@msn.com>
Reply-To: westjerr@mail.md
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:36:50 +0000
Subject: Managing Partner(Hartwig Chambers

From- Jerry West, (, Esq.(For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Hartwig Chambers)
London - Unite
TELPHONE----447031902324.
Notification of Bequest.
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Mr. Edwin
Gabriel, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address
on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Mr. Edwin Gabriel made you a
beneficiary to his WILL.
He left the sum of Four MillionOneHundredThousandDollars(USD$4.100,000) to
you in the codicil and last testament to his will. This may sound strangeand
unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely travelled man,
he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you
werenominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you
good.
Mr. Edwin Gabriel until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and
the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He was a very dedicated
Christian who loved to give out. His greatphilanthropy earned him numerous
awards during his life time.
Late Mr. Edwin Gabriel died on the 16th day of February 2004 at the age of
90 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him this
money is to support your Christian activities and to help the poor and the
needy. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get
back to me as soon as possible on this email address:. enable me conclude my
job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.
Yours in His service,
Jerry West, (Esq)
TEL------447031902324.

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