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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: "ROBERT GREEN" <robertgreeb0019@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: nnaobowu1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:34:14 +0000
Subject: ROBERT GREEN

Dear Friend,


I wish to accost you with a request that would be of immense benefit to both
of us. Being an executor of wills, it is possible that we may be tempted to
make fortune out of our client's
situations, when we cannot help it, or left with no better option. The issue
I am presenting to you is a case of my client who did not will a fortune to
any next-of-kin.I am now faced with who to pass the fortune to.

According to the English law,the fortune is supposed to be bequeathed to the
government if unclaimed.However,I don't belong to that school of thought
which proposes that the fortune of unlucky people be given to the
government.My purpose of contacting you is to
seek your acting as the beneficiary of the money,and lay claims the legacy
of $12.4million, which this unfortunate client of mine bequeathed to no
next-of-kin. For now, I alone know about this money.
Everything will be left between you and I to share between us. I would want
to take care of the needy and less privileged,as this is my primary
objective. All I have to do is to make you the beneficiary to the
$12.4million legacy.Again, I feel that you may be apprehensive and consider
this amount too big for you to defend. It does not matter, as there are
documents to back it up.

Thanks and God bless.




yours, Sincerely


Mr Robert Green.

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