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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: "john adewole" <johnadewole@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnadewole@tiscali.cz
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:42:26 +0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP!

Dear Friend,

My name is John Adewole the Manager, Credit and Foreign bills of Trust
Bank of Africa limited.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account

number
14-255-2004/utb/t whose name is Cho Yunkyoung, Korea who perished in a
plane crash[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers aboard on
August 6,1997.And for your perusal you can view thisweb site

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list

Since the demise of this our customer, I have personally watched with

keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one

has
come to claim his funds of US$25.5M (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred

Thoudsand
United States Dollars) which has been with my branch for a very long

time.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the

Next
of Kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking

ethics
here does not allow such money to stay more than eight years, because

money
will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period.
In view of this i will give you 30% of the total. Upon the receipt of

your
response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the application, bank's fax

number
and the next step to take.I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear

as
all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking

days,
after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.
When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your

decision
including your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.

Yours Sincerely,

John Adewole.

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