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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: joseph_jerry1000@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:23:19 +0200
Subject: Mr. Jerry Joseph From Bank Of Africa..

Mr. Jerry Joseph From Bank Of Africa..

Dear Partner
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
I am a staff of Bank Of Africa.. 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 £10.5million
British Pounds Sterling (Ten million five hundred thousand British
Pounds) 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 shall read more about the
crash on visiting this site.

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


Please acknowledge receipt of this message furnishing me with the
following information if you are interested.(1).A Beneficiary name and banking
details(2)Details particulars of your contact address.(3)Direct Telephone
and fax numbers,I shall be compensating you with 30% of the total sum and
5% for any expense you in cure on final of this transaction from my bank
as I will advise you to kindly desist from responding at all if you do NOT
intend to render any assistance.

Endeavour to respond through this my ultanative email
(joseph_jerry1000@yahoo.co.uk)
Thanks and best regards,
Joseph Jerry


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