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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: "customer service" <customer77_service@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:23:06 +0000
Subject: FROM DEUTSCHE BANK AMSTERDAM



From Larry Martin.
Tel: 31 647-210-426.
Fax: 31-847-288-479.
Deutsche Bank,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Date: 22nd November, 2005.

Dear:Heather Miller:,

This is to acknowledgment the receipt of your e-mail, and to confirm the
validity of the winning notification you received from South Australia
Lotteries. Be inform that you have been approved to receive the sum of
$1,000,000 (One Million DOLLARS), as the new winner of the last Australia
Lotteries.
However, your funds are presently domiciled in the Automated suspense
account (ASA) of the Central Bank of The Netherlands, and because of this,
we are advising you to open a new account with us so that your funds can be
transferred from the central bank's account into it before we can transfer
it to you - transfer it into your choice of account in your country.
For now, your funds will remain in the Automated Suspense account pending
when you open a normal account with us to receive your funds from the ASA of
the central bank.
NOTE: funds in a suspense account can neither be transferred nor deducted
from until the holding bank (Deutsche Bank in this instance) formally open a
normal account for the funds beneficiary to receive it. After then, the
funds can then be remitted to the beneficiary of the new account. These
measures are standard financial regulations by European Central Bank (ECB)
since the commencement of the global fight against terrorism and the
enactment of the new anti-money laundry acts.
ACCOUNT OPTIONS:
You have two options of accounts for your class of funds transfer; the
'Daily account' and the 'Premium account'.
The flexibility of the daily account is that you can transfer your funds
($1,000,000.00) from here to your account in your country at 1.711% as
transfer charges, while the premium account gives you the same flexibility
at a transfer charge of 0.18%.Note: You must open one of these accounts to
facilitate the transfer of your
funds from the central bank's automated suspense account for onward
remittance to your account in your country.
To proceed with this transaction therefore, you need to inform us of your
choice of account so that we can furnish you with the basic requirements:
Minimum Initial Deposit (minimum opening balance) and the processing fees
needed for the release of your funds from the Central Bank of The
Netherlands.
Also, we will send you the account opening forms/funds release orders, to
fill and return to us within the next 24hrs. Thanks in advance for banking
with us.

Yours sincerely
Larry Martin.
Deutsche Bank AG,
Herengracht 450 1017CA
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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