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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: "Charles Taylor" <anene2@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kenwest@caramail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:31:28 +0400
Subject: GOOD BUSINESS FOR YOU

Dear Sir

I am Mr. Ken Anene, the personal assistant to Charles Taylor, former
president of Liberia. He has recently stepped down from power and is
presently in asylum in Nigeria.
Well dear friend we need your assistance in transferring some of the
money
derived from Gold excesses in to your account, because the government
is
making plans to seize all his assets. I have been mandated to deal with
anyone who offers assistance to have this fund transferred to his
account
oversea.
The amount is USD$21 million, in a Security firm Abroad. All that is
needed
is for me to instruct the company to transfer the funds to your
account.
I
will remunerate you with 25% of the total funds transferred to your
vital
bank account as compensation for your assistance, 5%will be set aside
to
take care of your expenses we may inure during the transaction. To
Indicate
your interest kindly provide me your direct phone and fax numbers and
all
relevant information for me to be contacting you and to let you know
the
roles you will play in making this transaction successful.

All the legal Information concerning this money will be sent to you as
soon
as we agree together.
We all have been confined only to Calabar and all our calls are
monitored so
I will use all available contact to get you all the needed information.
Thanks for your cooperation

Regards,
Mr. Ken Anene.

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