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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: "SEC. Joy McCutchan"<johnfredrick_chamber20@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: <j_fredrick008@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:09:52 -0000
Subject: CODICIL

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Luther Kruger, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter 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. Luther Kruger made you a beneficiary to his WILL.He left the sum of Twenty two million five hundred thousand United States Dollars 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 recommended to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good.Late Engr. Luther Kruger died on the 12th day of March,2007 at the age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society.Please if I reach you this time as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time through the email address below.

Yours in Service,
Joy McCutchan(Mrs)
Secretary To-
John Fredrick QC.
MANAGING PARTNERS/ASSOCIATES

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