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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: LADY TORETH HUGHES <foster44@emsergipe.com>
Reply-To: ladytoreth_h001@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:34:32 -0300
Subject: LADY TORETH HUGHES.

HelloGetting your contact was not an easy task because since I am not computer= literate, I ordered an expert to seek a fellow very far away and he went= to the institute of International Business to apply and he paid them the= charges.=20=20I am Lady Toreth, married to Sir Richard Hughes an Englishman who is dead=; he died in a train bomb blast in Spain when he was going for his medica=l check up in 2004.Please copy and paste this Internet link for more info=rmation on the incident=20http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4340881.stmOur life together as man and wife lasted for three decades without child.= My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-priv=ileged. I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this re=lationship, which never came. When my late husband was alive, he made a s=afe deposit of 6 Million Great British Pounds which were derived from his= vast estates and investment in capital market with security company here= in Europe.=20Recen

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