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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: kelechiwilliams@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:40:18 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY

From:Kelechi Williams


Dear Sir,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since telephone
communication can not be suitable enough to communicate to you at first.

Being the only son of my father, late Chief Alfred Williams from KWANATAL
ZULU in Republic of South Africa (SA) I am 19 years of age.
My father was limited liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in JOHANNESBURG
South Africa before his untimely death. After his business trip to Abidjan
-Côte d'Ivoire, to negotiate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest
in Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire.

A Week after he came back from Abidjan, he was attacked with my mother
by unknown assassins, which my mother died instantly but my father died
after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon.

I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my
mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going
to die. He my father, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to
me that he deposited the sum of $15,800,000,00 US Dollars (FIFTEEN MILLION
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in a bank here in Abidjan- Côte d'ivoire.That
the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish
in Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire though, according to my father he deposited the
money in a confident account of the bank and he handed to me all the relievant
documents of the deposited fund and instructed me to seek for a reliable
and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the bank here in Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire
and I am soliciting for your assistance to help me to transfer this money
out from Abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we will invest it in
any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only
hope in life.
Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities
of this transaction.
Please kindly contact me through email immediately for more discussion.


Thanks for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely,


Kelechi Williams


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