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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: "thomas green" <thomasgreentheseven@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: thomas2006green@walla.com
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:58:51 +0000
Subject: BENEFICIARY

For your attention

This is in respect to your non-response of our earlier
letter to you on behalf of the Trustees and Executors to the Will of our
late client. I wish to notify you that you where listed as a beneficiary to
the total sum of FIVE million five hundred thousand British Pounds because
of the power bequeath on us in the codicil and last testament of the
deceased. Until his death he was a major shareholder in big companies here.
He was a very great Philanthropist during his lifetime. He died on 9th
January 2004 at the age of 68.He was buried on the 3rd of February. Even
though he was a foreigner living and working here, he requested before his
death that he be buried here in his words, I regard here as my home and the
people as my people".

For your information, we have nominated you mainly because
you bear the same SURNAME as our client. we can easily work and make claim
of this sum with your cooperation. We therefore reckoned that you can
receive this funds. All the legal papers will be processed on your response.
In you acceptance of this deal, we request that you kindly forward any proof
of identities of yours, your current Telephone and fax numbers and
forwarding address to enable us file necessary documents at our high court
probate division for the release of this sum of money from the
Bank.Congratulations and send our phone number for further discussions.

Yours faithfully,

Thomas Green.

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