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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: "Global Lottery" <glb-winner@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:07:51 +0100 (MET)
Subject: RE:URGENT



FROM Smith Micheal
South Africa


Dear Sir

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

Greetings,

PLEASE PERMIT ME TO MAKE THIS ACQUAINTANCE. THIS IS NECESSITATED BY MY
URGENT NEED TO REACH A

DEPENDABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PARTNER. THIS REQUEST MAY SEEM STRANGE AND
UNSOLICITED, BUT I CRAVE

YOUR INDULGENCE TO TAKE THIS MY REQUEST THAT WILL BE OF GREAT MUTUAL BENEFIT
TO BOTH OF US VERY

SERIOUS.

IN MY CAPACITY AS THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT OF Global Lottery Brokers I AND SOME
OF MY COLLEAGUES IN

SENSITIVE POSITIONS DELEBRATELY CREATED SURPLUS FUNDS OF TWO MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED

STATE DOLLARS (USD2,500 000) FROM OUR LOTTERY PAY OUT FUND alocation.THIS
SURPLUS SUM IS LYING IN

THE COMPANY'S SUSPENSE ACCOUNT WITH OUR BANKER by my instruction as the
chief accountant of this

organization.


This occasioned my serious desire to look for a trust worthy partner who
will receive these funds

by INTERNATIONAL BANKERS DRAFT upon my completing the administraive
procedure from my

organitiztion which will consequently grant the company's payee bank to pay
out the funds to you

as the beneficiary of the funds. After your recive this funds, We have
agreed to compensate you

with 30% of the total amount. We will use our executive position to put in
place all modalities

for the successful pay out of this money to you with out any risk or
trouble.

Kindly reply this mailthrough my email: and I will forward to you the detail
procedure of this

operation.

I assure you that this transaction is very free of any risk and trouble, as
I guarantee that

this objective will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I will execute this
transaction under a

legitimate arrangement that will protect the integrity of both of us from
any breach of the law.

Please reply through my email: lotto@glbonline.net

Thanks in advance for your immediate favourable reply, and Feel free to ask
any question in this

regard.

I remain,
Yours Faithfully,

MR Smith Micheal


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