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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: "Mr. Usman Yusouf" <usman200ad@mail2broker.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yusouf200ad@mail2banker.com
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:01:27 +0400
Subject: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY

From: Mr. Clement Harrison

Accept my greetings

I got your contact and deided to make profiting transaction with you. My name is Mr. Usman Yusouf, the regional manager of a branch of HSBC BANK Dubai U.A.E. I am a Sudannese Citizen married with two kids.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us. As the regional manager of the bank, it's my duty to send financial reports to my head office in the capital city of UAE. On the course of the last year 2003 end of the of year's report, I discovered a fixed deposit account with valued amount of us$15,000,000.00 deposited by one of our late customer Mr. Salah Adam who died along with the wife and two children involving in the Egyptian Air Craft in the year 1999.(http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm)

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account as the partner to the deceased since I can provide you some prove such as copy of his death certificate and deposit certificate. I intend to part 50% of this fund to you while 50% shall be for me. I do need to assured you that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the partner to the deceased.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.
With regards,

Mr. Usman Yusouf
Dubai - United Arab Emirates

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