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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: illar@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:44:41 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear=20Friend=2C?=

Dear Friend,
I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but I got
your contact through the internet, I am Mrs illar nita from Philippines,
widow to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who died on 15th
of May 2003. I inherited a total sum of $12.Million American dollars from
my late husband, the money was concealed in a metallic trunk box and was
deposited with a security and finance company in Abidjan Cote DIvoire,
that was because I needed a maximum security/safety of my consignment and
no body nor government organization can trace the where about of the money
until I am ready and prepare to claim it. but the Secuerity company didn't
know the real content of the box, because it was deposited as a family valuables.


My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country
for onward lodgement your account for the purpose of future investment with
your percentage of which we shall chat on soon. I will send you the Authorization
Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit
that they gave me on the very day when the box of money was deposited under
their company.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear
from you

e_mail (illar02nita@yahoo.fr) for quick conclusion of this business. All
the best, Madam illar nita



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