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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: "Moore Wilfred" <wm100000@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: legalbureau2000@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:47:31 +0100
Subject: FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION


I am Mr. Wilfred Moore. Attorney to Late Mr. Kim Peter a foreigner and an
Engineer with A.pz Construction Company. Late Kim Pete has an account with a
Bank
here, which he opened in 2003.
He died here in Uk 2004,I received a memo early last year from the Bank
remittance department for an interview about $14M USD that belongs to my
client Late Mr. Kim Peter, the bank informed me on their policy to freeze
the account of Late Mr. Kim Peter, I
was asked to redirect the ($14m usd) back to government treasury because
they
saw no next of kin in his entire file within the bank and his account has
been dormant for years which is against the policy of the Bank.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner as the
foreign beneficiary to that fund. I have resolved to share the money in this
ratio.50% for me, 35% for you, and 10% for the remittance manager in the
bank who has agreed to guide us and also he is
ready to give us the prove of the fund.
For the success of our objectives and 5% for expenses we might insure in the
processing of this transaction.
I will need your full name, full address, your phone/fax number, your age
and occupation. I will use all this information to procure the needed
documents to start the internal processing of the required documents to back
up our claim on receipt of all the required information from you which was
given above. I will give you further details on the entire process when I
receive your positive response.
Regards
Mr.Wilfred Moore

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