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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: "ANDY SMITH" <andy_smith55@tiscali.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: andy_smith55@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:01:53 -1200
Subject: ENQUIRY!

Ahli United Bank (UK)
Head Office Address :Ahli United Bank (UK) PLC
7 Baker Street
London, W1U 8EG
Phone : 020 7487 6500
http://www.ubk-plc.com/default.htm

We are conducting a standard process investigation on behalf of Ahli United Bank (UK) . This investigation involves a client who shares the same surname with you and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at Ahli United Bank (UK),the Private Banking arm of Ahli United Bank (UK).

The Ahli United Bank (UK) Banking client died interstate and nominated no successor in title over the investments made with the bank.

The essence of this communication with you is to request you provide us information/comments on any or all of the four issues:

1)Are you aware of any relative/relation who shares your same name whose last known contact address was London, UK?

2)Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a person at the Private Banking Division of Intercontinental Bank Plc?

3)Born on the 29th October 1930

4)Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of successor in title to the deceased?


It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar with this personality that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this personality.

You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with more detailed information at this point.

Please respond to this mail as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation.

Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

Andy Smith

****PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL***** This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure,reproduction, copying, distribution, or other disseminationor use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have
received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail.

E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information can be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed,arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.

The sender therefore does not accept any errors or omissions inthe contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

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