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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: "Chris V."<chrisv@sns.nl>
Reply-To: <chrisveens@sify.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:23:22 +0100
Subject: Payment of benefits

REFERENCE:SNS/NL/1341/09

PAYMENT OF BENEFITS

As the Head of Compensation and Benefits department of the SNS Bank,my office is charged with the responsibility of finding unclaimed assets,processing payment to beneficiaries or return to the Netherlands government as unclaimed.Our core objective is to locate family members,beneficiaries or heir to any of this amounts,dormant bank accounts, safe deposit box contents etc and process payment to them.

We have implemented active outreach programs designed to reunite unclaimed assets with existing beneficiaries. Our effort revealed your last name to be same with a deceased customer with total assets amounting to millions of dollars.All efforts to locate an heir to this amount has been negative.

Your assistance in the retreival of this huge amount will definitely be of benefit.kindly respond with your name as stated in your international passport or driver's license, your cell/mobile phone number and your present address.

You shall receive further update on this as soon as you respond to this mail.It will be in your best interest to keep this away from a third party till advised otherwise.

Yours Faithfully,
Chris Veenstra

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