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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: walter dozie <walterdozie5@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:33:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REPLY SWIFT


Dear Sir,

We are bankers wanting to invest through a free willed fund and for which you stands to benefit from it immensely. About $15M is to be invested upon and for which you shall get 30% of the total fund which shall be authomatically transferred into your account.

This business as you can see is risk free and calls for your understanding and due co-operation at all time for the successful transfer of the fund into your account. There are no charges or an upfront payment to be made by you in this transaction since all logistics has been put in place for a success transfer of the fund into your account.

On this note however, it is imperative for me to informing you that actually, there are some charges payable before this fund can be transferred permanently into your account and for which we have all taken it into consideration and have made provisions for that. You shall be required to open an online savings account with HSBC,Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays Bank where we can transfer some money into the accounts to be opened for the payment of the necessary charges.

Once the account is opened, the fund that will be used for the payment of the charges will be wired into the accounts with the above mentioned bank and which you shall later transfer back to us for the charges which we shall pay on your behalf here.

You should note that no other Bank can be used for this purpose except only the two above mentioned Banks and this is due to its officiating capacity being affiliated online to our Bank hence we use them for our official transactions of this nature. We do hope you will understand this very well and abide to it.

We do hope to hear from you soonest.

Regards.

WILLIAMS WHITE




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