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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: johnson desmond <jod10006000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:01:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Good day


Att:

Good day,I know you'll receive this letter beyond your imagination and surprise and my proposal been skeptical to you,based on the fact that we've never had any prior discussion to this matter or do we by any means seen or known each other before,nevertheless I would like you to treat the letter as a matter of urgency and accord it every attention required on transaction of its magnitude.

I got your contact in cause of a serious search the for a reliable foreign partner.


I'm Johnson Desmond the son of a late sierra leonian businessman,
late Dr. Peter Desmond the owner of RMS)mining company in Sierra leone
.Who died four years ago when the revolutionary united front rebels
attacked Makeni town, Sierra leone. Following the cease fire agreement which
was reach last year with the help of United Nation peace keeping
troops,I used the oppoturnity to leave the country with a very important
document of (US$12.400.000)Twelve million four hundred thousand U.S Dollars deposited by my late
father in security company in Dakar Senegal on my name as the next of
kin.
This money was realised from diamond export, now i and my mother are
seeking asylum in Dakar Senegal under(UNHCR). My main reason of
contacting you is that I received an information from the Security Company
warning that I should make haste to dislodge the money or I loose it to
high dumurrage rate which has pilled up since 1997 up till date. They
advised I should present an organisation/company as the beneficiary of the
amount as the money cannot be released to me as a client considering my
status here as a refugee.
I only want this done this way because your country is politically
stable for any profitable investment,The document are with me right now
in Senegal, it will be faxed to you upon request.which will emphasis the
althenticity of the transfer.
However I contact you based on your capability and vast knowledge
on international commercial investment. For your assistance and
co-operation we will give you 15%of the total sum realised after the sucessfull
transfer of this money.
Please kindly communicate your acceptance of this proposal so that
we can discuss the modalities of seeing this transaction through.
We count on you greatly for your assistance. Awaiting to to hear from
you soon.
Johnson Desmond













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