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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: "INFO BUSINESS INVESTMENT" <info@businessinvestment.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:28:14 +0000
Subject: THIS WILL BENEFIT YOU,BUT CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?.

It's my pleasure to send you this mail which I hope you will treat as HIGHLY
CONFIDENTIAL.I am Prince Michael Randolph Mobutu ,son of the late President
Mobutu SeseSekou of Zaire,new Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).There was
war going on in my country and so my family members escaped to Morocco while
i have for seven{7} years now been moving from boder to boder,country to
country.Yesterday i managed to find my way into lagos a western boarder town
of Nigeria.This Country is too big and there are so many Nationalities
here.I will simply mix-up myself with the others. Due to my fathers
tarnished image and heavy crises,it is not safe to put any investment in my
country and besides most of my father's properties and account have been
seized by the government of Laurent Kabila.Seven troubled years has passed
and everything has supposedly died down. Now I want to set up Viable
Business Ventures in your country.I sincerely have the sum of US$29,000,000(
Twenty nine million United States dollars) set aside for this project,but I
would not want my name or family's name to be used for security reasons.I am
prepared to offer you 12% (or a re-negotiated sum) of the total amount
remitted,if you assist me in claiming the funds from the financial and
security vault in london,where i deposited two{2} boxes containing the funds
in my name before my fathers death.Please contact me if you are interested
and capable of helping by sending your telephone/fax numbers for me to reach
you because I cannot receive any international call due to my condition.What
i need is a reliable,honest,decent and solvent person or a reputable company
to assist me in this deal.If you can convince me of your honesty and
profound interest in this deal,then i can proceed to furnish you with the
details of this transaction.I need is your assurance that you are solvent
and capable of handling a transaction of this magnitude,and that my share of
the money will be safe with you.I honestly assure you that this deal is 100%
risk-free,infact you can read more about my father on this web link
www.facts.com/wnd/mobutu2.htm .I look forward to your prompt reply.

Best regards,
Prince Michael Randolph Mobutu

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