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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jgeogepeter4real@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ibjcob Ibjcob" <ibjcob1@msn.com>
Reply-To: jgeogepeter4real@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:42:54 +0000
Subject: PLEASE BE OF AN ASSISTANCE

My name is GEOGE PETER jnr from Sierra-Leone, the only son of .Dr GEOGE
PETER snr Former Personal Assistant to the present Minister for Mines and
Natural Resources in-charge of the diamond production and sales in my
country Sierra-Leone.Unfortunately some months ago before the peace pact in
my country, my father and his colleagues were killed by rebel group of Mr.
Foday Sankoh during an inspection visit to the rich diamond mining area in
the village of Izumba, where the rebels laid an ambush and open fire on the
convoy killing my father and some of his colleagues who where on their way
to the diamond mining zone.Following the peace pact that was introduce by
theUnited Nation keeping force some months back, my mother deem it fit to
say that it is right time for me to leave the country for safety and for
Europe or any other stable economic bloc with the 10.5 million United States
Dollars ( ten million Five Hundred Thousand dollars) deposited by my late
father in a finance and security company in Europe . I contact you based on
trust and your vast knowledge in the business field when i got your contact
from a profile that speaks very good of you in the internet. I want you to
assist me so that i can transfer this money to your account for safe keeping
pending our arrival to your country, to start up an investment in your
country through your wise advice. You will act as my international business
representative and also my family business associate, so that it can be
transfered to your account for safe keeping. I am now in a west african
country for the facilitation of this transaction. kindly communicate your
acceptance of this proposal through this email address for us to discuss the
modalities of seeing this transaction through. However, if you are not
disposed to assist kindly destroy the letter in view of the family's
interest and security. I count on you greatly for your assistance,if where i
contacted you is not convenient for you, do not hesitate to tell me and
provide me another address where i will be contacting you. A good percentage
awaits you for your assistance. Expecting to hear from you soon.

you can reply me through my secure mail address

jgeogepeter4real@yahoo.co.uk



Best regards
GEOGE PETER JNR


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