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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: "Daniel Adams" <danieladams8800@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:48:27 +0000
Subject: From Daniel Adams

Greeting,

My name is Mr Daniel Adams of credit and foreign bills of Magnum Trust Bank.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number
is 14-255-2004/utb/t who perished in a plane crash(Korean Air Flight 801)
with the whole passengers aboard on August 6, 1997.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as none has come
to claim his funds of usd.15.5M (Fifteen million five hundred thousand
united states dollars)which has been with my branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin.And the banking ethics
here does not allow such money to stay more than eight years, because money
will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after realizing
that your name and country is similar to the deceased. I will give you 30%
of the total.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and
that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as a
relation to the deceased. When you receive this letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail through my alternative email
danieladams222@yahoo.co.in signifying your interest including your private
Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication and processing this transaction.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Daniel Adams.

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