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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: mcdonald_gerald01@tiscali.it
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:30:37 +0100
Subject: Business Proposal(Very Important)

From: Mr. Marc Donald Gerald
Bills & Exchange Manager

Allied Irish Bank

Bank centre,
Balls Bridge,
Dublin 4, Ireland.

Dear Friend,

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a Hugh sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this

magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring

you that all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION;

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million
Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who

died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his
next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as
the
heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies

for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking

guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be

carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$20,000,000.00) to be
released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business

endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Beneficiary name and address.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the

transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 2 Million Dollars

on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us.
Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment

purposes.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail.

Best Regards,

Mr. Marc Donald Gerald





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