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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: "From Christiana." <christian_c2000@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: christiana_c2000@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:03:21 +0200
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP FROM

Greetings From Christiana.,

How are you today? i hope you are fine and doing well? if so thanks be to God. I am Miss Christiana 23years old, the only daughter of col. Clark Benson one of the senior officers of revolutionary united front of Sierra Leone (R.U.F) who died with some of his colleagues during a cross fire battle between the (R.U.F) and the peace keeping force in sierra Leone.

Before my late father gave up at the hospital after the shot at him,he secretly called me and told me about his money Sixteen million United State Dollars.USD($16. 000,000,000) that he deposited with a bank Here in Dakar Senegal by the time he was posted here.

He told me that the money was meant for a Estate business he planed to establish here in Dakar Senegal and finally he gave me all the Vital documents Issued to him by the bank, which will enable me for the claim should a time like this comeup.
I must apologise for contacting you through this medium since we have not know our selfs before,though it takes be great corrage before i could make up my mind to contact you to sick your help, . I will be glad to hear from you soon concerning this issue so as to give you the full contact details of the bank also my photo will be send to you in my next email.
Remain bless as i will be eagerly waiting to hear from you soon concerning this issue
Yours Sincerely
Christiana.

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