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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: Stefan Wool <stefanwool1@msn.com>
Reply-To: <stefanwool@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:52:05 +0000
Subject: Good day,




Good day,

My name is Stefan Wool, I am a senior partner in the Technical Advisory Boardof Natwest Bank Of London (Senior Security Specialist). We are conducting astandard process investigation on behalf of "Natwest Bank", the InternationalBanking conglomerate.

This investigation involves a client who shares the same surname with youand also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at "AIBGroup", the Private Banking arm of Natwest Bank London. The client died intestate and nominated no successor in title over the investments made with thebank.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail privateand respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of thismail.I contact you independently of our investigation and no one is informed ofthis communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that Ibelieve would be of interest to you. You share similar details to the latefellow; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the firm to releasethe deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of thedeposit,

I am prepared to share the money with you, that is, I will simply nominateyou as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share theproceeds 50/50. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me,but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claimingthe deposit. But on the other hand, you with the same very name as thedepositor's would easily pass as the beneficiary with right to claim. I assure youthat I could have the deposit released to you within few working days.
I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what theconsequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the onetruth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray myconfidence.

If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.Contact me on my immediately for more details.

Kind regards,Stefan Wool

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