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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: carloswilliams4@fsmail.net
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:19:14 +0100
Subject: Response Needed

From: Carlos Williams

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr., An Audit officer in LA CAIXA BANCO
ESPAÑA. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my
office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of €
12.5.Million Euro (Twelve Million Five Hundred
Thousand Euros.) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on
January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You can read more about the crash by visiting this
site which I got during my investigation; please try
to go through the site .

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin
being his only daughter died along with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this
fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and two other officials in this
department now decided to make business with you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or
beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it

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