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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: "Muayed abdul" <muayedabdul@muayedabdul.net>
Reply-To: muayedabdul@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:51:58 +0000
Subject: Please do help me

Dear Sir,
How are you ?I hope is well with you and your family .First I should
introduced My self I am Muayed Abdul Son of Alahji Mohammed Usman Abdul.A
Businessman,I will love to be brief with my appeal for you to help me.
It is a sad story to especially my mother,After the dead of My Father on his
way for business meeting.It was a major heart break to the me since am
still young .Now i Have a problem i feel you can help us solve this problem.
The problem is this,While my father was alive he took me to a security
company that was three (3) years back he deposited 1.5 million Us Dollars in
the security company safe vault.Now My father is dead i need to collect the
money but due to family dispute here over my Dad's wealth He wrote his will
infavour of me to have all in laboured for before his death,Now the family
want to take it from me.
Please i need your help in this because i will want to relocate to your
country to settle down and also do invest too.
I will inturn give you a good %(percentage on agreed terms for your help to
me)
Waiting to hear from you .
pls write back to me as soon as possible.

Regards
Muayed Abdul

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