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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: Swiss-Credit Bank <info.bankingcredits@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: onlinetransferservice@swisscredits.org
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:45:14 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear Customer ( Sigilwig Scherder)


ONLINE-BANKING
*SWISS-CREDIT BANK*
1st Floor, 99 Hatton Garden, London,
United Kingdom, EC1N 8DN
Date:22 July 2007.

Dear Customer ( Sigilwig Scherder),

Sigilwig Scherder, how are you doing today and i was trying to call you but it does not go through regarding to this transaction.

It is my duties to carry out this transfer and you don’t want to respond to us this bank to enable us conduct the transfer.

You are required to send us the applicant form and the chosen option payment to enable us activates your online account.

After the account setup, you will send the USER NAME AND PASSWORD in other for you to perform the online transfer of your fund to your bank account in your country.
800.00 USD is not much for the account setup or account activation, you are to get back to us with the required information that is needed for this transaction.

This being stated we, SWISS CREDIT BANK , irrespective of the validity and the legal effects of the above mentioned relationship, waiving all right of objection and defense arising therefrom, hereby irrevocably undertake to pay immediately to you.

For the purpose of identification, we request for payment for Account Activation and the Applicant Form,in writing has to be presented to us through the intermediary of your bank confirming that the signatures thereon are legally binding upon you.

This guarantee is valid until 30 July 2007 and expires in full and automatically, if your claim has not been received by us at our counters ONLINE-BANKING,SWISS CREDIT BANK,1st Floor, 99 Hatton Garden, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 8DN or before that date, regardless of such date being a Banking day or not and irrespective of whether the present document is returned to us or not.

The cancellation of the present guarantee prior to the expiration of its validity is subject to the return of its original to SWISS CREDIT BANK, 1st Floor, 99 Hatton Garden, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 8DN.

Signed,
Mr. Ray Williams.
ONLINE-BANKING
SWISS CREDIT BANK PLC.


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