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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: "Dennis Morena"<morenadennis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:58:52 -0700
Subject: (Utmost Respones Needed)-

Good day to you,

I am the Operations Manager with a Security Company here in South Africa, I am
contacting you regarding to a business deal, there is a (Consignment) that was
deposited with us in 2006, and Two (2) weeks ago the Consignment was made postage
through the Diplomatic Courier service after the depositor (Roger Warren) residing at
Chief land, Florida, laid claim to it, the diplomat has been trying to make contact
with him but till date to no avail.

The Deal is this, the consignment contains a total amount of (US$4.2M) and the
Diplomat is not aware of the content because it was tagged as family valuables, I can
re-authorize the consignment to be delivered to you as the new beneficiary without any
hindrance and risk involve as the diplomat is still in the United States with all
legal documents awaiting further instruction from my office.

Please, acknowledge receipt of this email using the below telephone number and my
personal email address below so that we can discuss the next step and sharing ratio
of the fund.

Note; Whatever information that I will pass to the diplomats is what they will act
upon, on this note I would like you not to take this opportunity as a joke because the
diplomat is already in the U.S and time is not on my side, also if the consignment
should be returned back to South Africa without trace of Mr.Roger Warren, the funds
will be sent to the government treasury for circulation as unclaimed funds.

Best Regards,

Mr. Dennis Morena
Mobile:+27-71 902 2902
Email:morenadennis@gmail.com

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