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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: john Ifidon <ji1030_privatemails@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:14:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FOR URGENT ATTENTION OF DAMIEN RICE


Dear Damien,
I am very happy to receive your mail. I believe that God sent you to render this help to me. Yes I mail you in order that you will help me to transfer the fund I inherited from my parents into your account for investment on my behalf.
2. I can not contact someone that I know because they are the people that poisoned my father to death and before the death of my father he advise me to look for a foreign partner who wll be kind enough to help me transfer this money into his account and also help me to invest it wisely in his country. And since then I have been praying asking God to recommend a God fearing person to me and that is why I feel very happy when I got your mail.
I have the legal document bank give to my father when my father deposit this money with the bank as well as my father's death certificate which I will send to you once I receive your reply to this mail.
Please always reply me through this my private mail yahoo box becuse I find it difficult to open the other box when internet connection is slow here but Yahoo is simple to operate.
I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as you receive this mail, please don't fail.
Love from,
John.

Hi ,Sorry about the wait but I dont use the internet often as I get
headaches from using the computer too much.
I think this is a strange way of doing things.Why do you mail me? Why
dont you ask someone you know?
I dont feel compfortable because I dont know you.
Damien



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