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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: "Paul Smith" <paulsmith001@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:02:11 +0000
Subject: Important Message From Paul And Blessing Smith To You


Our Respect And Greetings ,

May this mail find you happiness and peace in your life. I am Paul Smith and
my younger sister Blessing Smith of the same parents from Sierra-Leone
country.

We lost our parent and our late father Dr Jacob Smith made a deposit of
money with a bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire in a fixed deposit and the
amount is US$38 Million dollars. We are presently in Abidjan where the money
was been deposited and I have the documents backing up the money at the bank
for your claims and our late father told us incase if he died that we should
look for someone who has a legitimate bank account abroad to help us claim
the money as we are young ones,We have the ID Card issued us from the United
Nation here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire on our arrival as refuges and these
will serves you as a proof of who we ARE. We believe you as an advanced
person with family and you will not betray the trust we impose on you at the
end of the transfer into your personal bank account.

Please we need you to send to us the followings,

1.Your full Name.
2.Your private phone and fax number
3.Your banking information

All the above we will submit to the bank for the transfer of the money to
your bank account which you are going to send. Bear in mind that this
transaction remains confidential to yourself alone for our security and that
of the money. Based on this we contacted you for an assistance,So that we
can front you as the beneficiary of the deposited money US$38M to the bank
so that you can have contacts with the bank for the bank to make the
transfer into the account you are going to nominate.

Finally, your reward for your noble assistance will be under negotiable.

Thanks and remai n bless .

Waiting for your reply.

Yours sincerely.
Paul And Blessing Smith.

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