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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: "john williams" <j_127williams127@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:57:30 +0200
Subject: GREETINGS

DR JOHN WILLIAMS,
TEL-27-73-2029-817
j_127williams127@hotmail.com


Dear Friend,

I am,DR JOHN WILLIAMS,the Chief Accountant African Development Bank South
Africa.I got your address while searching for trustworthy
individuals in various countries.
ln my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of $25,5million US dollars
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died in an
auto accident with his family in South Africa.

Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of
kin to come to our bank and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as a next of kin or relative to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed relatives died in a plane crash
leaving no relative behind to claim the fund.It is upon this discovery that
l and other officials in my department decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relative
to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to
go into our bank treasury as an unclaimed fund.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years,the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed funds.
The request for a foreigner as a relative for this claim is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a South African cannot claim
this fund as next of kin.
We agreed that 20% of this money will go to the foreign partner who will
supply the foreign account,5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the transaction and 75% will be for me and my colleagues.Thereafter,l and my
colleagues will visit your country for disbursement of the percentages as
indicated above.
If you are interested to assist in this transaction,kindly contact the
writer on the above mobile number or private e-mail address.Please this
transaction is risk free and you should not entertain any atom of fear as
all required arrangements have been made for transfer.

Yours Faithfully,

DR JOHN WILLIAMS, Chief Accountant ADB

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