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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: "Mr Steve Hollaway" <steve_hollaway@vosinc.net>
Reply-To: st_hollaway1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:41:47 -0800
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY

Good day,

I guess this letter may come to you as a surprise since I had no previous correspondence with you.

I have a business proposal that will be mutually beneficial to us financially.

I am Mr.Steve Hollaway, the account officer of Mr.Morris Thompson who died in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines, which crashed on January 31, 2000. along with his wife and only daughter( who happens to be his next of kin).He has an account with us.You should read more about the crash on visiting this site(s).

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or as a relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

I was contacted by the Executor of his will to find somebody that can stand in as his next of kin, so that the funds would not be trapped in our bank. All legal paper work will be taken care of by him(the Executor).

If you are interested, please respond as soon as possible.In the event you are not interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you mention this to someoneelse.

I hope you can be trusted in this regard.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Hollaway.
United Trust Bank Limited
80 Haymarket, London
SW1Y 4TE,
United Kingdom.

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