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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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  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: "azuka kumar" <azukakumar03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: azukakumar51@myway.com
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:51:05 -0700
Subject: MAIL FROM AZUKA KUMAR

Dear Business Partner,
My name is Azuka Kumar , the Chairman of Independent Committee on Unclaimed
Foreign Funds(I.C.U.F.F),senegal. ICUFF is charged with the responsibility
of finding foreign bank accounts abbroad belonging to our late citizens
which have remained dormant/unclaimed over the years.
It may interest you to know that In 2003, the Netherlands Banker's
Association published a list of dormant accounts originally owned by non
citizens. Some of these dormant accounts belonged to late citizens of
senegal. The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee on Unclaimed
Foreign Funds(I.C.U.F.F) has since resulted in the discovery of additional
dormant accounts,securities accounts,safe deposit boxes,custody accounts,non
interest bearing accounts.
A routine notification has been sent from a security firm in Netherland to
my office to make available a beneficiary for the claim of a US$12.5 million
belonging to one of our late citizens .The depositor died several years
back leaving no possible records for trace of heirs.

I need a foreign partner to HELP claim this deposit as the beneficiary.You
will be required to provide me with your details for the processing of the
necessary legal, and administrative claim documents for your claim in the
Netherlands.Provide me with your full name, address, and telephone/fax. I am
willing to pay all required fees that will enable proccessing of the needed
documents that will enable your claim from the Security Firm so you can
confirm the genuiness of this transaction.SEEING IS BELEIVING.

I am pledging to give you some percentage of the total value of the said
deposit for your assistance .As soon as this is concluded arrangement are
on ground to meet with you for the disbursement and start a viable business
with my part of this funds .

THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED.YOUR MAXIMUM COPERATION IS NEEDED

I want you to contact me on my personal email
Thank you for your prompt response.
Azuka Kumar

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