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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: "SARAH MOORE" <info_sarah_moore@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mreric_smith@personal.ro
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:49:13 +0000
Subject: THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (National Westminster Bank Plc)

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (National Westminster Bank Plc)
Head Office, 21, Southbury,
London EC2P 2BP United Kingdom
TELEPHONE: +447040111466
FAX NUMBER: +447092309657
PLEASE YOUR REPLY IS NEEDED URGENTLY
SEND YOUR REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS (mreric_smith@personal.ro)

We feel quite safe dealing with you on this issue as late Mr. WHELLER
PATRICK made you the sole benefactor of his account. He is an account holder
in our branch; he owns a dollar account with the sum of US$58.2M (Fifty
Eight Million, two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) deposited in
a numbered account with the Bank. In fact it happened that since his death
on the 11th of September you are the next of kin of this dollar account
holder (THE FRIEND) this is as a result that he has the account as a secret
account and left all the documents for the deposit with the bank. This is
where we are interested in and we want you to please put out your name and
apply for the funds to be release to you as soon as you get this
notification.

We want you to please let us know that you are the one we are paying
this money to and as a friend to the deceased, You will be given the
relevant documents and contacts to file the application and then effect the
approvals for the money to be paid to you, We will be the one to provide the
vital documents for the claims of the money and then advise you exactly how
we should handle it. More information will be sent to you as soon as you
indicate your claim of ownership to assist in this transaction.

We are contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that we had
with (Mr. WHELLER PATRICK). The Management and the Legal department of our
BANK (NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC) in a recent meeting, Recommended that
the account of Mr. WHELLER PATRICK, who was one of my branch depositor, who
died in world trade center as a victims of the September 11,2001.Incident
that befall the United State of America, the Bank is still unrelenting in
it's bid to contact you to come for the claim of this money, you can
confirm through this:

http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/victims_list.htm

We will use our positions to get all internal documentations to back up your
claims.
PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS (mreric_smith@personal.ro)
MR RUBEN NUTUGAR (FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
National Westminster Bank Plc.

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