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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: "james obi" <mrjamesobi2@msn.com>
Reply-To: barrsimmy@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:30:11 +0000
Subject: I'm happy to inform you about my success

Dear Friends

I'm happy to inform you about my success, in getting the fund
transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new
partner from paraguay who is an international business man.
Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own
share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past
efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds
despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary, her contact is:
Name: Barr simmy Ade
Email: barrsimmy@yahoo.com
Tel: (00234)-8024496202

Ask him to send you the total $450.000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty
Thousand US Dollars) which I kept for your compensation for all
the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and
get in touched with my secretary Barr Simmy Ade and instruct him
where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can
share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the
moment,I am very busy here because of the investment projects
which me and the new partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary
on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch
with Barr Simmy Ade,and he will send the amount to you without any
delay, and keep me imformed on your progress.
With best regards
Mr.Jame obi.

former director telex wire cbn



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