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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Jim Harry" <jimharry@walla.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:25:00 -1200
Subject: VERY URGENT!!!

Attn
From The Auditor/Head
of Department
Bank of Scotland,
United Kingdom.
{Very Urgent Business Transaction}

Dear Partner,

In order to transfer out (fifteen-million pounds sterling)
from our
bank here i have the courage to look for a reliable and
honest
person who will be capable for this important transaction,
believing that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am Mr. Jim Harry the auditor and head of computing
department of
a bank here in London, United Kingdom.

There is an account opened in this bank in 1995 and since my
inception into office in 2001, nobody has operated on this
account again, after going through some old files, I
discovered that if i do not remit this money out urgently,
it will be forfeited for nothing.

How the money came about:The owner of this account was Mr.
John Hughes who was a foreigner and the manager of
Petrochemical service here in London, a chemical engineer by
profession and he died since 1995.And then, since
2001,nobody knows about this account or anything concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that his company does not
know anything about this account and the amount involved is
(15,000,000.00)pounds sterling.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
can not
be approved to any local bank here in London, but can only
be
approved to any foreign account because the money is pounds
sterling? And the former owner of the account is John Hughes
and he
was a foreigner too.

Finally, at the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 35%
of the total amount,60% will be for me ,while 5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during the process
of
this transaction. Please you should include your phone and
fax
number for easily communications.

You can contact me through my alternative mail address on
(mr_jimharry@walla.com)

Yours Sincerely,

Auditor Jim Harry



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