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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: henry_duke@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:44:10 +0100
Subject: FROM HENRY AND SISTER



Dear Sir/madam ,
we are using this means of communications becauseof time Shortage, so please
kindly bear with us.However, permit us to inform you of our desire of goinginto
business relationship with you, 18.5 Million dollars was deposited in a
bank on our behalf by our father before
dead came to him, we have gone to the bank to claim the money but was told
by the bank manager that though the money belongs to me only my father`s
foreign partner who my father
entrusted with the power to oversee our welfare and invest on our behalf
can have appropiate access untill i have good business knowledge.

Please,we want you to be my father`s recommended foreign partner as to enable
us transfer this money to you country,your helping us will solve our surffrings
we will also like to live andschool in your country If you oblige to help
us .we arewilling to give you 10 Percent of the money.please write back
on your indication of your intrest to help us then we will give you every
details and information on our disposal for the transfer.
thanks, looking forward to hear from you.

HENRY AND SISTER



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