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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: ochihe@voila.fr (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:09:48 +0100
Subject: Business coopperations

Dear Sir,
I know that this might be a surprise letter to you, but do consider
it as an emmergency.In a nutshell,I am Mr.JOSEPH KOROMAH MANI, from the
republic of Sierra-Leone in west Africa,now seeking political asylum in
Dakar Senegal under the(UNHCR).I got your contact from a reliable chember of
commerce.
My (late )father (Dr.KOROMAH MANI) was the managing director of RainbowGold
Diamond Minning company in (KENEMA) Sierra- Leone.But was killed during the
longing civil war and all his properties was totally destroyed.However, we
managed to escape with some of his reserved preciouse Diamonds and important documents which was presently deposited safely in a security and finance company here in Dakar.
Now we are saddled with the problem of securing a trust worthy foriegn
personality to help us transfer the diamonds over to his country pending my
arrival to meet with him.Furthermore,we only want this done this way because
your country is politically stable for any profitable investment and if you
accept our proposal,you will serve as the beneficiary of the diamonds.
I am giving you the offers as mentioned with every confidence on your
acceptance to assist us,we have decided to give you 15% to 25% out of the total
money generated from the sales of the diamonds.Secondly,we shall mapped out
5% for any miscelleneous expenses that you may incurre during the transfering
of the diamonds over to your country. Finally,the diamond weight in question
is 42.550 Carats.Conclusively,i wish you send me a reply immediately as soon
as you recieve this proposal, so that we shall arrange on how to lift this
consignment out of Dakar Senegal to your country.
On commencement,this transaction will take (7)working days to be
accomplished.A certificate of ownership, and the Lab-test result certificate
of the diamonds would be fax to you immediately i recieve your urgent and
positive reply.Until then,i remain with the best regards. feel free to
contact me
Best regard
JOSEPH KOROMAH MANI.

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