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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: DANIEL YERRE <d_yerre@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 14:46:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: UEGENT HELP.



FROM:DANIEL YERRE

Dear sir

With due respect, trust and humility, I use this medium to write this letter to you irrespective of the fact That you do not know me, but please do consider this letter as a request from a Family in dare need of Assistance.Let me formally introduce myself. .I am Daniel Yerre from Angola.

I am the first and the only son of Brigadier JOHN.P.YERRE am presently residing in South Africa. I got you contact courtesy of a business journal from the South African Information Exchange in my earnest Search for a reliable and trustworthy individual/company who can assist us in this business.and on behalf of my widowed mother ,Mrs ROSE LATIFE YERRE ,decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum US$35:5Million]thirtyfive Million five Hundred Thousand United states Dollars)

Before my fathers death ,he was a Brigadier in charge of arms and ammunition purchase for the Angolan armed forces.In his "WILL",he spefically drew my attention to this sum of US$30.5 Million that he deposited in a safe box of a private Security Company in South Africa.In fact my said in his Will and i quote: My beloved son,I wish to draw your attention to the sum of US$40.5 Million which i deposited in a box with a Security Company here in Johannesburg,South Africa. In case of my death,you should solicit for a reliable foreign patner to assist you to transfer this money out of South Africa for investment purposes.I deposited the money on your name and you can claim it alone with the deposit code. my mother has all the documents.

I and My sister. We are now living in South Africa as political asylum seekers and the Financial Laws of South Africa do not allow asylum seekers certain right to such huge amount of money.In view of this I can not invest this money in South Africa hence I am asking you to assist me to transfer this money out of South Africa for Investment purposes.For your effort,I am prepared to offer you 30% of the total fund . Finally,all the modalities on how to transfer this FUND will be conveyed to you once we have established trust and confidence between ourslves.I urge you to expedite action on this issue and sincerely hope that you co-operate with us to see us through.

Best regards,

DANIEL YERRE





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