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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: "Farouk Abdul" <faroukabdul1940@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:56:48 -1200
Subject: From Mr.Farouk

MR. FAROUK ABDUL
TEL: +27 838856188


Dear Sir

Courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored
onstrong desire to solicit for your assistance on this
mutual beneficiary and risk free transaction with you.


I am MR. FAROUK ABDUL Senior manager of ABSA BANK Limited
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA. In my department, we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$ 27 Million (TWENTY SEVEN MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of
our customers who died along with his entire family in
1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash. Since we
got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
procedures, but unfortunately to no avail and nobody has
come forward to claim the money.

Therefore, upon this discovery that I and other two
officials in my department now decided to establish a
cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to purportedly present your good self as
the next of kin or relation of the deceased so that we can
release the fund (money)into your account for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and
again we do not want the money to going to the government
account as unclaimed bill .The banking law and procedures
herein stipulates that any accounts abandoned or dormant for
a period of some years is subject to be closed and all money
contained therein will be forfeited to the government
treasury account.

Now it’s being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into government treasury account as unclaimed
fund on or before SEPTEMBER 2005.The reason for you to
present your good self as the next of kin is occasioned by
the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner. Mode of
Sharing After the successful completion of the transfer is
as follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the
whole exercise, we have agreed to give you Thirty (30%) of
the total sum, and the remaining 70% shall be for my
colleagues and I in support of therefore mentioned.

After your reply, you will be advised on the next step
afterwards. I quite believe that you will protect our
interest by keeping this business top secret and
confidential. Your interest will be equally protected, as we
must maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from
you on this TEL NO.:+27 838856188 .

Count on your earliest reply.
Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR. FAROUK ABDUL

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