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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: =?utf-8?B?IkogUHVybm9jaG9277+9Ig==?= <agentura.venkova@iol.cz>
Reply-To: stewart.barculo22@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:05:22 GMT
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL




Good Day=2C

My name is Stewart Barculo=2C Staff of Standard Life Bank Limited=2E

Though I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have =

approached you on this issue being that the internet has been greatly =

abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for information=92s
of vital importance=2E I have decided to take the chance seeing that no =

other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail=2E=


I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he
placed under our banks management four years ago to the tune of fifty =

million UnitedStates dollars(=2450=2C000=2C000=2E00)=2EI would respectfu=
lly =

request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and =

respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of =

this mail=2E I have been in charge of this department for nine years and=
=

to best of my knowledge=2C I have discharged my duty with equity=2C In t=
he =

process of review of the financial report by my department=2C I =

discovered that both of you have a similar last name=3B hence I contacte=
d
you so that I can give you further briefing on my intention and how to =

disburse the funds and estate he left behind=2E

My proposal=3B you share the same surname With our late client=3B I am =

prepared to place you as the next of kin and have the funds release to =

you as the closest surviving relation=2C I am prepared to share the mone=
y
with you in half 50/50=2C I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I=
=

have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank=2C =

please=2C again=2C note I am a family man=3B I have a wife and children=2E=
I =

send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the =

consequences=2C but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing =

gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of =

gold=2E =


Kindly send your response to my private email address=3A =

stewartbarculo=40hotmail=2Ecom

I await your response=2E

Stewart Barculo=2E

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