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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: stevepetkovic@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:12:50 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

ATTN PLEASE
Permit me to introduce my self,I am Steve Petkovic a solicitor at law here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting you,in relation to a business that involves a collosal sum of money from a deceased account.
I am the personal attorney to a foreigner named Dr. Mark Kogan who died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below which was published by CNN.WEBSITE.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
He had $23.5m in his account with his Bank before his death. All my efforts to locate his true relations/next of kin as his personal attorney since he died has proved abortive as he did not indicate such in all the official documents he tendered to his Bank.
The Money is about to be reverted back to the Bank's treasury hence I solicit your permission to process all requisite documents in your favour by using your name as his legitimate next of kin to transfer this money into your account without further delay,your present country does not matter as you could be his uncle from his mother’s side which automatically qualifies
you to claim his property (money).
Or, you can come here so that we can put heads together and discuss on how to go about it.
Please kindly furnish me with your contact details, Telephone and Fax numbers to enable me discuss further with you and start up with the process immediately.
You wll get a very reasonable percentage out of this money for your help and it will be negotiable.
This transaction is risk free, strictly private and must be treated with utmost confidentiality.
Contact me immediately through this Direct email address (stevepetkovic@lycos.co.uk)indicating
your acceptance of this offer. I have twenty-one (21) banking days to conclude this transaction on receipt of your response.
I am awaiting your urgent response.
My regards.
STEVE PETKOVIC
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