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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: "Peter Wallace" <peterj_wallace1@msn.com>
Reply-To: peterj_wallace@excite.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:21:56 +0000
Subject: Notification of Bequest





From: Peter Wallace, Esq. (For Trustees)
Managing Partner (Herbert & Wallace)
London - United Kingdom.

Notification of Bequest

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Martin
Wilzek, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address
on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Martin Wilzek made you a
beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Five Million One Hundred
Thousand Dollars (USD$5,100.000.00) to you in the codicil and last testament
to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true.
Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the
past or simply you were referred to him by one of his numerous friends
abroad who wished you good. Engr. Martin Wilzek until his death was a former
managing director and pioneer staff of a giant construction company. He was
a very generous individual who loved to give out. His great philanthropy
earned him numerous awards during his lifetime. Engr. Martin Wilzek died on
the 9th day of February 2005 at the age of 90 years, and his WILL is now
ready for execution. According to him this money is to help the poor and
the needy.

Please if I reach you, as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon
as possible to enable me conclude my job.

I look forward to your prompt response.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Wallace, Esq.



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