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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: "FROM: Mr. John Kasrils." <john_kasrils@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnkasrils1@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:25:11 +0200
Subject: FROM: Mr. John Kasrils.

FROM: Mr. John Kasrils.

I am Mr. John Kasrils, the only son of late chief Robet Kasrils, from Sierra Leone my sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to claim our cash of Ninteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$19,800,000.00)) which was Deposited in a suspense account in a bank here in Abidjan called BANQUE INTERNATIONALE POUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE DE LA COTE D’IVOIRE (BICICI) here in Abidjan.

Source of the money .My late father, Chief Robet Kasrils, a native of mende district in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, was the General Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown, so this Fund was the income accrued from mining co-operation's over draft and minor sales. My father deposited the fund for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. But my father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father death, the untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related complications of which she later died after we spent a lot of money on her.

I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways: I need you to use your humble position to represent our family to reclaim the funds and transfer it to your company's account or any account you will norminate for the funds so that you can invest the funds on our behalf because we can’t do this ourselves. after the fund is transferred to your country, you make arrangement for me and my younger sister to come over to your country to further our education and to secure a resident permit for us in your country.
Please observe the utmost confidentiality of this transaction until we meet with you in your country to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you will be the caretaker of the investment as I and my sister will like to further our education in your country. Most importantly. The whole documents issued after deposit is in my custody, for your assistance. I beg to concede 30% of this money to you for your efforts and assistance.

To contact you is to believe you can do this business therefore I request you to respond to me as soon as you receive my mail but if you cannot participate please informs me so I make another plans.

Best regards.
Mr John Kasrils.

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