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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: "Dr. Bram" <bramco4@imfhome.org>
Reply-To: bramco@mail.ru
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:25:51 +0000
Subject: Ref:...Your Consent

Desk Of: Dr. Bram Cooker
Alpha Lynex
Alt. Add: bramco@mail.ru

Sir/Madam,

I take liberty anchored on strong desire to solicit for your assistance on
this mutual and beneficial transaction with you, which I hope you give
urgent attention. To be precise, I am Dr. Bram Cooker; manager of Archives
Department of a Security Company here in Europe. In my department, I
discovered an abandoned consignment containing US$32,524,000.00 (Thirty Two
Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand United States Dollars)
belonging to one of our customers who died along with his entire family in
the Tsunami Disaster on their trip to Sri Lanka during the disaster.

Over the months, the Company have been expecting the customer’s next of Kin
to come over and claim this Consignment, because we can not release it
unless somebody applied for its release as next of Kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our rules and regulations, but unfortunately to no
avail, and nobody has come forward to claim the Consignment (because the
mentioned next of kin which is his son died as well).

Our Code of Conducts stipulates that any deposit abandoned dormant or
unserviceable for a period of time is subjected to be terminated and all
valuables contained therein be forfeited to the Company. This is almost the
case of this Consignment.

For the above reasons, I hereby sincerely seek for your/company’s consent to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased before the company. It is a
confidential deal between you and I. My Company will not be aware of this.
I will direct and furnish you with necessary documents and information that
will enable you contacts the Company for the claiming of the Consignment. I
have enough documents to ensure the success of this deal. Therefore success
is 100% guarantee.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.

Having succeeded on the above and the Consignment made available to you, you
and I will share the money according to any agreed ratio. I am not greedy
about it.

I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in
order to achieve and maintain maximum success. Trust to hear from you
soonest.

Warm regards
Dr. Bram

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