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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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Please note about this email:

• It lists mobile phone numbers or call redirection numbers (no bank, lottery, etc would use mobile phones to take customer calls).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. WILLIAMS JAMES" <dr_williamsj@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williamj@computermail.net
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:55:52 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,
 

I want you to assist me and my partner to receive a package which we are working on how to move it out of our country down to your country,and we promise to give you 30% of the package.
 

We only need:
(1) Your full name  (2) Your address (3) Mobile Telephone number
(4) Your international passport number or Photograph for us to make the
deposit with your name.
 

The flight that will be living with the package will be living this  weekend that is why we need your assistance for us to make sure the  package live immediately.
 

The content of the package is $15 million  U.S dollars our company Sell  Bloc, Crude Oil want to send this money to our customers in Europe  through a security company  and it was declare personal effect.
 

We want to divert the money to you so that we all will share it,So we want  you to send us the needed information for us to deposit the money with your name to the security company that will be living with the package.
 

Please we are sorry if we have offended you for the assistance,but we believe the business will change our life.I wait your reply with the information so that we will deposit it with your name as the rightful  beneficiary and after that we give you the:
Goods Number, Code,The Tracking Number.Please you can call me with this number :+234-802-385-1671 for more information.
 

Hoping  to hear from you.
 

Thanks and God bless us,
 

DR.WILLIAMS.

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