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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: princekabia@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:07:48 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=3B=20Prince=20Kabia?=

From; Prince Kabia

Email;(princemary2003@yahoo.fr)

Attn:,
Good day and God Bless you.
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a business relationship
with you.

I know you might be surprised on recieving this mail
due to we have not met before. By brief introduction , I am Prince Kabia
a citizen of Sierra Leone and the only son of late Mr and Mrs Vincent Kabia.
My late parents was killed by the rebels in my home town Mende district
the second Economic Capital of Sierra Leone during the recent Political
crisis of Sept 2002 .Then after their death i and my younger sister manage
to ran out of our country to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire,where we are staying
now for our safty.

My Parents was a Wealthy Cocoa and gold Merchant before they met their sudden
death .

Before their death in a private hospital , my father secretly disclosed
to me of the total Sum of $15.000.000.00 Fifteen million US dollars he deposited
in one of the banks
in Abidjan on behalf of his foreign business partner as the
beneficiary for onward transfer to his or her Overseas
account .

Dear , I am honourably seeking your assistance to stand as foreign partner
of my late father and beneficiary of the money as well as guardian , and
to provide a bank account for the transfer .

I will also like you to make arrangement for me and my
younger sister to further our Education .

I will offer you 15% of the total Sum as compensation after the transfer.
Please, get back to me through the above email address enable me inform
you the requirement before the transfer of the
money into your account .

Expecting to hear from you.
Best regards,
Prince kabia and sister

Please send your reply to me with this email address
and send your private email address to me.
(princemary2003@yahoo.fr)



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