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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: "Henry Selely" <henry@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: henryseely@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:04:46 -0700
Subject: YOUR HONEST ASSISTANCE

Attention Pleases,
I am Henry Seely, before anything i ask if you can be trusted, because my late boss Mr Morris Thomapson deposited the sum of US$26,000,000.00, with Afro International
Bank In Ghana,West Africa. And i Called the Bank in order to be sure if the said fund is still there, and the Bank has assured me not to be worried about anything that all i needed is to forward to them my full banking information where the said fund will be transferred to, and i told them that my Late Boss Mr Morris Thompson did a contract in your country with you, that before his death, he wrote a will that the sum of US$26,000,000.00 should be transferred into your account.

Furthermore, all i needed from you is truth and honest, because i don’t want any delay in this transaction, so as soon as you read my mail, do not fail to reply me with your direct telephone and fax number together with your full banking information so it will enable me to forward it to the Finance firm for them to notify you for onward transfer of the fund, for your information, the sum of 30% will be for you, why the balance 70% will be for me after the transferring of the fund to your nominated Bank account.

Finally, i will be looking forward to read from you,and please do not fail to reply on time, so the fund can be transferred to you before the ending of this week. Thanks and God bless. Yours
Henry Seely

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