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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: "Mr.Maxwell Khan" <mrmaxwellkhan@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: maxwell_khan@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:17:21 -0700
Subject: TRANSFER / INVESTMENT

15 Driveway
Kingston
EngLand
W8 3BP.

Attn: The Ceo/Md,

We want to transfer to overseas ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States Dollars)
from a Bank in united kingdom, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this funds, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this
money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business
trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Mr.Maxwell Khan, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during the course of our auditing
I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1995 and since 1998 nobody has
operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a next of kin Who will be beneficiary of this said fund.
The owner of this account is Mr. Allen p.seaman, a foreigner, and a executive director of Ghana gold
mine, and he died in a plain crash, since 1998. And no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary.

We will start the first transfer with six million [$6,000.000] upon successful transaction without any
disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got your contact address from my
secretary who operates computer, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business. With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to
any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending
our physical arrival in your country for sharing. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25%
of the total amount, 70% will be for me,while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transferring.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Maxwell Khan.

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