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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: "Thomas Martins & Associates" <tmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: thomasmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:42:09 +0100
Subject: Thomas Martins & Associates

Thomas Martins & Associates
From: Thomas Martins
Tel: 00871 762 6044 85
Fax: 00871 762 6044 86
Email:thomasmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:Email:thomasmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk>
Dear Sir,
I am Thomas Martins(Thomas Martins & Associates), a solicitor, and the personal Attorney to Mr. Robert Rudolf, who is the President/Chief Executive Officer of (R & R INC.) Robert Rudolf Incorporated USA ,
Herein referred as my client.
On the 2nd, of September 1998 at: 11:16 p.m. EDT (0316 GMT ,Swissair Jetliner,
with 229 passengers on board bound from New York JFK to Geneva, Switzerland,
crashed catastrophically off the coast of Nova Scotia vanishes from radar near Nova
Scotia Halifax, my client Mr. Robert Rudolf , and his wife Mrs. Anne Sophie Rudolf ,
with their three children Marie Rudolf, Olivia Rudolf, Paul Rudolf,
were involved in a horrific flight crash, 215 passengers and 14 crew members unfortunately
lost their lives in the disastrous crash of Swissair Flight 111. May their gentle souls rest in
glorious peace Amen.
However, I have taken it upon myself to trace the next of kin for possible claim of the sum
of US $ 175,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Seventy five Million United States Dollars Only), which is the total payable to the next of kin. The funds have already been withdrawn from the federal bank of South Africa and boxed. My late client deposited this cash with a security company without them knowing the content of the boxes for security reasons.
If you are interested in the business, a quick arrangement for you to claim the funds will be made to avoid the cash being returned to South African government as untraceable/unclaimed dividend.We cannot wait and see such amount of money wasting in the government coffer.
This claim must be made not latter than three weeks time.
After the business, each partner will be entitled to receive half of the money and I will then let you know how I am going to meet you in your country for investment discussion.Note, that this business is 100% legal, risk free and should be handled with utmost urgency and confidentiality.
You can reach me on my search light telephone and fax as indicated above without adding my country code. All replies should be forwarded to this Email:thomasmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:Email:thomasmartins1996@yahoo.co.uk>
BEST REGARDS,
Thomas Martins
Thomas Martins & Associates
NB :You can view the Website of the Disaster:
<http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/07/swissair.victims.list/index.html>

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