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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: LOUISA1960@handbag.com
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:18:21 +0200
Subject: PARTNERSHIP ASSISTANCE


From : Mrs. Louisa Estrada
Reply To:andreweze@emailpinoy.com

ATTN:

I hope that this mail will not be an embarrassment to you; my name is Mrs
.Louisa Estrada. the wife of the embattled ex-president of the Philippines
who is under house arrest at the moment. Just recently I went to see my
husband in his detention place he confiden tly told me that he has some
amount of money deposited in a Bank in outside Philippines and after he
told me where to see the certificate of deposit which I saw intact. A total
of US$21M(TWENTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS) was dep osited Now since we (His Family
members) are closely monitored by the incumbent
government.

We wish to employ your services to act as our proxy to claim this sum from
the bank and invest the money in your country till we are ready to come
over to take over the investment from you. All you will do is to contact
the bank where the money is and open another account online, then we will
write an order for the bank to trans fer the money into the account that
you will open and once this is achieved my husbands name will be completely
erased from the transaction and it make the whole thing risk free.

Upon request I will scan and send to you the certificate of deposit for
your perusal before the transaction commences. Considering the effort you
will put in the transaction starting from the opening of the account to
the investment of the money we are willing to concede 25% of the money to
you as compensation, while we will write an asset management agreement be
tween us for you to invest the remaining75% on our behalf.

We will want to know you well and therefore you are expected to send to
us your CV as well as any other means of proper Identification. Even thou
gh the transaction will be based on mutual trust.

Please if this proposal interests you , please make sure you get back to
me through my confidant MR. ANDREW JERRY: via emails: andreweze@emailpinoy.com


Please keep this matter as a top secret till the end of the transaction.


Regards,

Mrs. Louisa Estrada.


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