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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: "HOFFMIER LIRA" <hoffmier_lira@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hoffmier_lira@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:07:00 +0200
Subject: I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR IMMIDIATE ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir/Madam,
The inspiration to contact you is simply divine
providence,i am making this proposition because i have to seek the partnership of a resource person to help me realise this project.

I am Hoffmier Lira,ESQ a Solicitor and an Investment consultant based in Cape Town,Republic of South Africa.
I was attending a business luncheon in berlin,germany and I got introduced to the renowned german business man and property mogul,Mr Andreas Schranner(of the blessed memory). He engaged my services as Attorney and Investment consultant and my primary assignment was to spearhead his investment forays in the Republic of South Africa. three months later I invited him to Cape Town and under my professional guidance and based on my advice he
made a fixed deposit of $14,500,000,00 Fourtheen Million Five-hundred Thousand United States Dollars at a financial institution. this deposit was for 12months and upon maturity I made effort to contact my client,I could not reach him or any member of his family.

I was forced to travel to germany and there I got the tragic news that on july 25 2000, my client Mr Andreas Schranner,his wife Maria,his daughter Eich and husband Christian and thier two children perished in the air france concorde newyork bound flight;please click here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm I have made efforts to locate any member of his family with strong biological links to my late client without success.

The search to find a close relation is one that has consumed time and resources. The financial insitution is asking me to either present a next
of kin to late Andrea Schranner or forfiet the depsosit.

My proposal to you is to package , present you as next of kin to late Andreas Schranner and process the fixed deposit and transfer custody to you for our mutual benefit. My capacity as Solicitor/Investment consultant to my late client gives me the discretion to package and
transfer the deposit to you.

I will give you 30% for your effort,65% for me and 5% for contingencies that may arise in the course of processing the deposit transfer.
it will amount to injustice if i do not take this decisive step to secure this deposit, and invest it.the late schranner was also a friend in addition to our business relationship.

I will wait for your reaction and response and then together we can jumpstart this project and nurture it to reality.

I await your reaction
Hoffmier Lira


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