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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: United Nations Foundation <unf024@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:43:09 +0000
Subject: UNF GRANT AWARD ***Award Winning Notification***





United Nations Foundation1800 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW, Suite 400Washington,
D.C. 20036

The United Nations Foundation (UNF), would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of £450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds) for your personal, business, or educational use.

The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.

The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity.

You are required to contact the Finance Officer below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After contacting our office with the requested data, you will be given your donation pin number, which you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (UNF-03945-UNOG) and Amout won in all discussions.

Finance Officer- Dr. George Wakefield
drgeorge.wakefield@msn.com

Sincerely Yours
R. E. Turner,
Chairman of the Board



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