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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: "mbela peter" <mbela_peter8@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mbela_peter3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:30:10 +0100
Subject: GREETINGS FROM PETER

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 MR MBELA PETER, I was a Personal
Assistant to the Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated
on january 2001 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$6,800,000 (six
million, eight hundred thousand USDollars).

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 SOUTH
AFRICA, 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, 25%, 75% for me.

I have all the title 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.I
remain at your disposal to entertain any further information on the procedures
and requirements of this transaction.
In your reply, remember to indicate a safe telephone
number where I can always reach you.

Please treat with the strictest confidentiality andexpediency.Please advise
me on your position by e-mail immediately,Please I await your prompt reply.
Regard,
mbela peter.



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