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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: "ENGNIEER MAXWELL UDOR" <engmaxudor1@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: engmaxudor@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:43:00 +0400
Subject: ENG.MAX UDOR.





Dear Friend,
You may be surprised to receive my letter, however,I got your contact from
the Chamber of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you for
confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business.My name is Engineer
Maxwell Udor I was a Personal Assistant to the Late Congo President,
LAURENT KABILA , who was assasinated in February and my aim of writing to
you is because of the need for a trusted and honest person, who I can
entrust the sum of US$100,800,000 ( hundred million eight hundred thousand
dollars). Source of the money: I and the late president secured this money
in a security firm in EUROPE, in my name before his death. Now I can not
travel out of Dubai, where I am on asylum, hence I am asking for your
assistance to have this money in your care pending when I will secure
travel documents to come over to your country.If you accept this offer we
shall share the money as follows: for you, 10% and 5% for any expenses you
incur during the transactions, 85% for me. I have all the
titl!
e documents to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have
assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and legitimate. Please advise me
on your position by e-mail immediately,Please I await
your prompt reply.
Engineer Maxwell Udor

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