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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: "HANS"<hans_david2007@myway.com>
Reply-To: davidhanschamber_1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:38:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FINAL NOTIFICATION


FINAL NOTIFICATIONPlease confirm your receipt of this mail becauseprevious hard copy letters have been sent throughyour mailing address but we did not get any response from you.TERRY WILLIAMS FROM CANADA DEPOSITED MONEY AMOUNTINGTO 4.5M DOLLARS IN BERLINER BANK,GERMANY IN 2004.HEDIED LAST YEAR.IN HIS (WILL) $1.3M IS TO BE PAID TO THEBENEFICAIRY(BENEFICIARY IS SUPPOSED TO USE (40% OFTHIS MONEY FOR CHARITY AND 60% FOR HIMSELF)I AM THELAWYER TO LATE TERRY WILLIAMS.I AM THE PERSON HANDLINGHIS (WILL) AND MY NAME IS DAVID HANS.The late TERRY WILLIAMS until his death was a formerManaging Director and pioneer staff of a bigconstruction company in CANADA an later invested inpoultry farm and grains. He established himself as a wealthy farmer in CANADA where he exported rice and other poultry products. Hewas a very dedicated man and a great philantropistduring his life time. He involved himself in helping people by giving investable loans in agriculture andother ventures. He said in
his words as stated in his last STATEMENTthat "it is my desired wish to see that the poor andless privileged are given assistance by any means andlimit this token could go, especially Asia, Africa andSouth America. He therefore advised that this amount be invested andthe part of the proceeds be used in the work ofhumanity". I hereby request that you forward your currenttelephone for further discussion. Please inform me if you did receive this notificationthis time. Yours faithfully, DAVID HANS (llb.Lon) Estate of TERRY WILLIAMS

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