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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "100% hitch free" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: mike anderson <mikerawmaterials@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mike-anderson@mail.ru
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Attn: VICTIMNAME


Dear VICTIMNAME,

My name is Mr. Mike Anderson, the Manager, Credit
and foreign, HSBC Bank, London.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my
bank who had a dollars account Fixed Deposit, valued
at twelve calendar months in my Bank Branch. Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered that he was aboard the, American Airlines Flight 587 which crashed into a
residential area near John F.Kennedy International Airport on November 12,2001.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/11/12/newyork.crash
Since the demise of this our customer, I personally
has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin
but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$15.5m (Fifteen million, five hundred thousand US dollars), which has been with my branch for a very long time.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name
shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin and the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than seven years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period. In view of this, I got
your contact through my search for an honest,faithful and trustworthy fellow that can assist to make a claim of this deposit with the help of my personality. I will give you 40% of the total sum. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you more details and the next step to
take.
I will not fail to ring to your notice that this
business is 100% hitch free and all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking days after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.
Please when replying this mail kindly includes your
Full Name,Telephone and Fax number for better communication.

Awaiting your urgent response.

Yours sincerely,

Mike Anderson


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