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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Peter Wallace <p-jwallace127@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:12:22 -0400
Subject:



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. Gerhard Wilhelm, 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. Gerhard Wilhelm 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 travelled 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. Gerhard Wilhelm 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. Gerhard Wilhelm died on the 9th day of September 2006 at the age of 92 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, endeavour 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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