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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: "info.priva" <info.priva@webmail.alfa.com.lb>
Reply-To: rolandkone1@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:26:41 +0200
Subject: Comfirm this and get back to me.

Dear Sir,

With trust and understanding that i am sending this mail.
I am Mr Roland Kone working with one of the Bank here in
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire as an accountant in the Bank.
The Late President Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Lome,Togo.who
died this year. He deposited with our Bank the sum of Euro
21Million and i am his Banker in our Bank here in Abidjan
Cote D' Ivoire and nobody knows about this money deposited
with us here, and also the family don't know about this
funds.
What i need from you now as we are having Political
problems here in Cote D' Ivoire, is your assistance as a
partner to transfer this funds to any of the given Bank
account by you where this funds will be transfered into for
an investment with your help.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO: To get this funds transfered to your
country or any place you think that will be better, We will
need a Lawyer who will get some of the documents needed for
the transfer. You will be given 45% of the total money for
your own effort and 5% will be for any expenses made during
this transfer and 50% is mine. Your Name will be SILENT in
this transfer to asure you that this transfer is 100% free
risk.
Please contact me with this email address:
rolandkone1@yahoo.fr
for the immediate action of the transfer. God bless you as i
am waiting to hear from you soon.

Thanks, Yours Faithfully

Roland Kone (Mr.).

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