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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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• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: MR MACK PETER <mack.peter28710@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mack_peter2@mail.az
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:46:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ATTENTION. 100%.RISK FREE


(RE: TRANSFER OF US$ 40 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.)

My name is MR MACK PETER. I work as AUDITOR GENERAL IN First National Bank South Africa.

On my routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of (Fourty million U.S dollars only}. The owner of the fund was a foreigner, a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI government.

It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 15% of the total transfer sum, 80% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer.

The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer USD 8 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed percentages.

Let me know if you can handle it.
Best Regards,
MR MACK PETER.


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