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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: albertmts@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:37 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?INVESTMENT=2E?=

FROM. MR. ALBERT MARTINS

Attn: Friend,
You may be surprise to receive this email since you do not know me.
My name is Mr. ALBERT MARTINS, chairman of contract award and monitoring
committee of the ministry of industry and international trade development,
my duty as empowered by the Cote D'Ivoire Government is to provide the basic
amenities, social recreational activities in urban and rural areas.
This program includes assistance to deprived local communities and to Co-ordinate
projects and development at the national level; furthermore, from this projects
we have been able to secure some Reasonable amount of US$15.5M (Fifteen
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) as commission
from various contractors resulting from over invoicing, hence all the necessary
approvals have been completed.
Following the above named reasons, I am soliciting for your humble and confidential
assistance to take custody of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars Only (US$15,500,000.00}, also to front for me in the areas
of business you desire profitable.
These approved funds was packaged and dispatched through a security company
for onward delivery to its destination in Europe.
As we are government officials, we are not allowed to operate foreign bank
account
Hence we need you to stand as the beneficiary and claim the fund on our
behalf from the security company.
I shall leave immediately for Europe to meet you because I believe you are
a reliable person/company of high integrity /dignity and one with conscience
who will claim this fund on our behalf as the beneficiary, and we have agreed
to give you 25% of the total sum as commission for your Assistance/effort
and 5% will be used to settle every expenses incurred, we will use 70%to
invest under your recommendation, guidiance and go into joint venture business
with you.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

I look forward to your response as soon as possible.

Best regards,

ALBERT MARTINS
Please reply to : martinsalbert@netscape.net



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