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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: "Ferdinad Otting" <ferd2@reliefways.com>
Reply-To: qwang7@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:01:14 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED




Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Chen Chun-Hwa, the bill and exchange manager of a bank in
HongKong and I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge 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;

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten million five hundred
thousand united states 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 for 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, I 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$10,500,000.00) to be
released
in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know
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 letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can
be made. I shall be compensating you with a One million five hundred
thaousand
dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us
for
investment purposes in your country that you will propose to us.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do take advantage of this
opportunity.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Regards,

Mr.Chen Chun-Hwa

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