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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: "Mr. Nicolas Bambi." <jafhmed@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jafhmed@accountant.com
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:34:49 +0000
Subject: Re:



Dear Friend,

I write to you with the understanding that you would treat this proposal with urgent consideration. However feel free to dis-regard this proposal if it is not in line with your principles.

My name is Mr Jafar Ahmed, the head of operations in one of the leading banks in Africa. Recently, when I was taking analysis of our operations over the past four years, I found out that there has been an account which is due to be declared unservicable by my bank and I was supposed to prepare the documents and forward to the management for this purpose, however they cannot have access to the documents unless I let them.

I have decided to transfer this money to a foreighn partner so that we can share this money as will be agreed. The ammount involved in this is 15m Euro (fifteen million euro) and I believe it can do us a lot of good when appropriated. This is why I have contacted you when I found your contact while searching for a reliable partner that can help me do this, since I have my interest in the real estate

This business will have to be handled in the most legal manner and I will make sure that it does not bring any risk to both of us and our families. I have decided not to give you the name of the bank and depositor in order to protect myself as I do not know if you will be interested or not so that I do not get betrayed, but when I am sure of your participation, I will give you all the details you need to have about the deposit.You do not need to make any travel becauseof this, just confirm your participation and all you need do is to forward an account where the money will be trasfered to after the necessary paper works.

Thanks for reading this far and I do hope to hear from you with your readiness to work with me, so that I can give you modalities on how to achieve this goal.

Regards,
Jafar Ahmed.

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