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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: jeffsannoussi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:04:11 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Prince=20Jeff=20Sannoussi=28contact=20me=20now=29?=

Dear sir,

I am contacting you with reason that we are going to
be of a great use to each other
My name is Prince Jeff Sannoussi, I am the first
son of Late Zainoul Abidine Sanoussi. Untill his
death, my father was the former foriegn Affairs
Minister of my country (Guinea-Conakry).

Before I go into further details please be informed
that I am writing without any other person`s
pre-knowledge of my contacting you, Therefore I will
appreciate same attitude to be maintained all
through Days before the death of my father
he revealed to me about a deposit of a trunk box

which he deposted with my name in a private security
company in Accra, Ghana for security reasons,
although he registered the contents as precious stones
but the real content of these trunk box is fhe sum of
USD42M (Forthy Two Million United States of American
Dollars)
which was his share from a secret sale of Diamond
when he was in the office, he could not deposit this
funds in a financial institution for fears of the
funds being confiscated.

After the burial of my father, I made frantic effort
on the best way to handle this money. I sought
advice from an attorney who advised that I must seek
for a
trustworthy foreign business partner.

However, I sincerely ask for your assistance to get
this Funds out of this country, and your share for
assisting us will be 15% of the total sum, 5% will
be use for upsetting all the expenses incurred in
the course of concluding this venture and the
remaining 80% that will be for me and my family
The consignment will be released within seven 7 days
of my being in receipt of your reply via my email
address and I want to assure you that this transaction
is 100% risk free

In case you have any question do not hesitate to
contact me as I wait for your swift and favourable
response to my email.

Best Regards
Prince Jeff Sanoussi
PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE E-MAIL
jf_sannoussi@yahoo.co.nz
From Prince Jeff Sannoussi(contact me now)




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