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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: Danny Wilson <dwlsbox22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <danwislonmailbox@yahoo.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 03:44:27 +0200
Subject: Urgent Information.



From: Mr. Danny Wilson.Crikle House, Hammersmith.London. Sir, Please accept my sincere apology if my email does not suit your business or personal ethics. I will first introduce myself to you. My name is Mr. Danny Wilson, the Account Director with NatWest Bank PLC. One of our accounts, with holding balance of 12.500 000,000 (Twelve Million Five Hundred thousand Pounds Sterling) has been dormant and last operated for years ago. From my investigations, the owner of the said account is a foreigner by name Mr. John Shumejda who died in a plane crash at Birmingham Airport on 4th Jan, 2002. Please view this website for verification:-

http://www.cwn.org.uk/business/a-z/a/agco/2002/01/020104-air-crash.htm 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; I have confidently discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. My proposition to you, is to seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin and beneficiary of this late client, so that the proceeds of this account valued a huge sum shall be paid to you, and then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed percentage of 35% for you, while 60% for me and others involved, 5% shall be used for miscellaneous expenses and the remainder from it shall be given to a reputable charity home because the money is owned by a deceased person.

I want you to know that 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, and the funds will be released to you after necessary processes have been followed. I need you to kindly signify your interest to this mutually beneficial deal by responding back to me immediately with your full names, contact information, telephone and fax numbers to enable me give you the next line of action to adopt. I look forward to your earliest reply by email for more details.
Best regardsMr. Danny Wilson.

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