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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: "William Jones" <william_joneslegalfirm112@msn.com>
Reply-To: william_joneslegalfirm112@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:23:45 +0000
Subject: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANCE

>From The Desk Of Barrister
William Jones Esq.London

Hello,

I am Barrister William Jones from London. A solicitor at law, I was the
Personal attorney to late German property magnate Andreas Schranner Who died
in 2000 with his wife Maria and their daughter Andrea Eich all perished in
the jet.

Please view these websites to confirm what I'm telling you and get back to
me immediately.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating most especially, the
money left behind by my late client and his estate before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits
were lodged. The deceased had an account valued at about 12 million United
States Dollars and the bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of
kin, or have the account confiscated.

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

Please get in touch with me to enable us discuss further about this
transaction.

Contact me on my alternative(william_joneslegalfirm112@yahoo.co.uk)

Best Regards,

William Jones.


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