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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: "MADU GOPAL" <crrsrvc@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: gopal_madu1970@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:36:36 +0400
Subject: REPLY


AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.

EMIRIATE BANK OF U.A.E. CONFIDENTIAL.

Good day,

Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to
assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost

trust and confidentiality,while browsing the internet after I and my
colleagues have decided on what to do as regards the matter.

I am MR MADU GOPAL, the manager Bills and Exchange under foreign
remittance department of Emirate Bank of

Dubai U.A.E International. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this business

opportunity in my department.

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$24.million in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who

died along with his entire family of a wife and three children in
October 1998,in a plane crash.

Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for

the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or sign an binding
agreement to bind us together so that you can

receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice
where the fund will be safe and I will fly to

your country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return response.

My warm regards

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