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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: "prince kenny williams" <princekenny_williams@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:33:22 +0800
Subject: COMPENSATION

Dear marc sanchez,
How are you and your family? obviously you may get upset when reading this mail but after you
peruse the content very well, you shall smile at the end. Please take it for it is just nature and do
not blame yourself because you did not finish this deal with me.We hope all is well with you all
there? We also hope that this mail meets you in a perfect and suitable condition. On behalf of
myself and my colleagues here regarding to the unfinished transaction with you. We are using this
opportunity to thank you very dearly for your great effort to our unfinished transaction due to one
reason or the other best known to you. But we want to inform you that we have successfully
transferred the fund out of my country to someone else account who was capable of assisting me
in repatriating the fund out here to his country.

Due to your kind efforts, sincerity, courage and trustworthy you showed at the cost of the
transaction then, we therefore like to compensate you and your family by showing our gratitude to
you with the sum of $985,000.00. (Nine Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand)USD.On the
authorization, we have authorized the finance house where myself and my colleagues deposited
some of our money to issue you a certified international bank draft cashable at any location of
your country banks. My dear friend,we will like you to contact the finance house for the collection
of this international certified bank draft which is cashable at any bank in your country. The name
and contact address of the finance house in brief is as follows.

FIRST SECURITIES AND FINANCE PLC
Email: aftc1990@accountant.com
Telephone; 008613697453147
MR. Wong Lee (CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER)

At the moment, myself and some of my colleagues member are very busy here because of the
investment projects which myself, colleagues member and our new re-assisted partner are having
at hand like as I told you then that we are going to invest together if we get to the root of the
transaction but is unfortunate you lop. Finally, remember that we have fax/forwarded instruction to
the finance house on your behalf to send the bank draft to you as soon as you contact them
without delay. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom
of our Godly heart.
Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you sooner you contacted them.

Yours faithfully,
Albert Galut.

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