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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: "Dr. Hanson Shumejda" <alternet4@myway.com>
Reply-To: dr.shumejda@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:25:24 -0500 (EST)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED




















Dear Partner,

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I will first introduce myself as Dr. Hanson Shumejda, a staff in the Private Clients Section of a well-known bank, here in London, England.

One of our accounts, with holding balance of £12.500.000.00 {Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds,has been dormant and last operated since 1990. From my investigations, the owner of the said account is a foreigner by name Mr. David Hagen who is a foreigner and the Manager Of petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Profession and he died since 1990.

Since then, nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money, as he has no family member that has any knowledge as to the existence of either the account or the funds; and also Information from the National Immigration also states that he was single on entry into the UK.

I have confidently discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner whom we Believe in God that will never let us down in this transaction. We therefore propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after necessary processes have been followed. you will be compensated with 30% of the total FUND for your partnership while 70% will be for us. please indicate your intrest for us to procced as we will be looking forward to your earliest reply by email.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. Let me hear from you as soon as you get this message, so we can proceed.

Best Regards,

Dr.Hanson Shumejda



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