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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: "mabel mamumbi" <mabel_mamumbi@terra.com.mx>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:10:01 +0100
Subject: FROM MRS MABEL MAMUMBI

MRS.MABEL MAMUMBI
DEKER GUEST HOUSE
ILOT 8 REU MENDE,
ABIDJAN.

Dear,
I am Mrs. Mabel Mamumbi. I am a widow with a chronic renal insufficiency
case, a kidney disease and I am presently putting up in a guest house with
my son here in Abidjan.
I want to inform you of an urgent assistance I need from you and if you
can not assist fully, I will like you to please source a trustworthy person
to receive a certain deposit I inherited from my late husband for an investment.

My late husband deposited the sum of $ 15 million in cash and packaged in
two metalic boxes with a security here in Abidjan before his death while
in service as a general in the Army in my home country but before his death,
he handed me over all the documents relating to the deposit of the boxes
with security company and asked me to leave for Abidjan and arrange with
a foreign partner to invest the money so that my children could have a better
education and a good life.

Consequently, I and my son Diallo has come to this place and have located
the security company and it is time for us to claim the boxes and have the
money moved abroad. I therefore want to use you as my late husband's foreign
associate to receive this money in your country for investment so that
my son can continue his education while I am properly administered medically
abroad.

Meanwhile, I will like you to urgently indicate your willingness to me so
that I can furnish you the related documents and lodgement reciept of the
deposit with the security company for your perusals and confirmation to
enable you contact the security company for the claim of the treasure.
Because of my ill health, I am mostly bedridden in the hospital on renal
dialysis, this is a system of artificially doing/performing the functions
of the kidneys. By this, the excess toxic waste products in my blood are
washed out. So in case you call, feel free to speak with my son Diallo on
telephone number 0022507951274. He also has the details of what I have briefed
you.
I will like you to reply or call me immediately so that I can detail you
accordingly concerning this and the next step to take, please note that
you will be compensated accordingly for assisting me and my son to successfully
moving this money out of this country for the investment in your country.
Hope to hear from you, urgently.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Mabel Mamumbi/Diallo Mamumbi



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