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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: "Mr. Barry Probyn Stevens." <barry_com@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: barryprobyn_stevens@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:52:30 +0000
Subject: Please I Do Need Your Assistance Please It Is Urgent Please.

GOOD DAY,

I WISH TO WRITE YOU THIS PERSONAL LETTER AND IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, I PRAYED AND FASTED FOR YOU WOULD BE KIND ENOUGH TO TREAT AND GIVE IT MAXIMUM ATTENTION IT REQUIRES.

I, am Barry Probyn Stevens the senior son of late Dr. Siaka Probyn Stevens who died on 22nd March 2004 in Freetown Sierra-Leone, me and my mother Mrs.Florence Probyn Stevens inherited the sum of [$26.4m] Twenty Six Million Four Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars from my father who was The First Executive President Of Sierra Leone before he died.

But before the war started he deposited the money with the Bank Of Ghana Treasury Department in Africa and for safekeeping and onward transfer.

But presently i and my mother want you to help us receive this funds as our foreign partner, We need no money from you, we just want you to deal with the bank of Ghana directly, to stand for us before the bank as the new beneficiary of this money.

And I will want you to also sign agreement with me so i can trust you and be sure you agree to take 25% of the money for your assistance and invest the rest with your wise advice in your country.

I will get a Power Of Attorney and a change of ownership documents to you name, it will be sign by me in the presence of the commissioner of oath in the High Court Of Justice in Accra, Ghana which is the origin of this fund, that will show to the bank that i the next of kin of the deposited money has given you legal power to receive the money that bank will release this money to you, without any question. You will just tell the bank officials were you want the money to be delivered to anywhere in the world.

It may surprise you but it the is truth and no one expect you new that we are alive and in Ghana that is why you must keep this a top secret to yourself alone, because my late father signed agreement that the money is a contract payment for is foreign business partners and should be released without delay or questions. Remember my late father is the biggest Gold and diamond local sales merchant in West Africa.

All document covering this funds are with my mother and every thing is legal according to the International Monetary Funds Laws of money transfer law requirement .
Please do contact me with this information’s below so i can send all the documents regarding this transaction to you so you can understand wisely.
E-mail:[barryprobyn_stevens@yahoo.co.uk ].
Regards,
Mr. Barry Probyn Stevens.

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