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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: petermike2000@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:14:41 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTN=3A=20HONORABLE=20BENEFICIARY?=

ATTN: HONORABLE BENEFICIARY
FROM THE DESK OF: DR.PETER MIKE
OUR REF:
Comment: NATWEST BANK LONDON
EMAIL ;; PETER_MIKE0044@YAHOO.COM
ATTN: HONORABLE BENEFICIARY


I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. 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 our treasure house 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


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.


The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds. We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit
your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated
above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and
trust is our watchword in this transaction. Send your reply through my direct
and Private email address: peter_mike1000@box.az

Please in your response include i need this informations for easy
communication between us.

1. Your Full Names,

2. Address Direct Fax and telephone numbers for effective communication
that this transaction needs.

3. Your Banking details, include your Bank Names, Address, Bank account
Number /swift code and bank routine number.

4) Your Full Profession, Age And Marital Status Looking forward to urgently
hearing from you.



Best regards
DR. PETER MIKE.



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