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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: "Daniel Galloway" <dangalloway2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:10:16 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY


FROM = MR DANIEL GALLOWAY.
ADDRESS= 12 MAYFLOWER CRESCENT
ESSEX NORTH-LONDON.

**
HELLO,

I am contacting you today for a profitable business prosposal. My name
is DANIEL GALLOWAY . I am a personal secretary to late MR ANDREAS SCHNEIDER.
ANDREAS SCHNEIDER was an estate and property magnate from Germany but
resident in United Kingdom.
ANDREAS SCHNEIDER died recently in a plane crash with the whole of his
family in a world tour cruise.

Apart from being his personal secretary I was also his
confidant . I was therefore in a position to know all his Financial
transactions as he trusted me . LATE MR ANDREAS SCHNEIDER had a deposit of
usd$18.5 million
with a famous security and finance company here which i want you to
help me receive and transfer into your bank account Till i come over to
join you for sharing and investment as you may direct me.

IF you agree to assist me ,I will give you all the details of the
transaction and the process of receiving the funds because you will act as
the next of kin to LATE MR ANDREAS SCHNEIDER. For assisting me in this
business you will
take 35% of THE USD$18.5 MILLION as your share and I will take 65% as
my share.
You will keep my share for me till I join you in your country a few
weeks after the transfer is made.

I want you to understand that I am not a dishonest man. I am only doing
this because if the security company discovers that Mr. ANDREAS and all
his relations are dead ,they will turn over the money to government and
this will not help me.
Please note that there is no risk in this transaction as no relation of Mr.
ANDREAS is alive today and the security firm does not know he is dead yet.
When you transfer the money the security firm they
will assume it is Mr. ANDREAS' next of kin who is doing the transfer
because I help you get his letters of administration to empower you
as his next of kin.
It was when I learnt of his death that I went to his room to search for
the paper works [Documents] relating to the said deposit and I found them
in concealed [secret] drawer in his bedroom.

Please reply this message soonest so we can commence action urgently.
Yours sincerely,

DANIEL GALLOWAY.

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