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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 JONATHAN SANKARA" <jonatex20042003@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrjonathan@mail2broker.com
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:15:33 +0400
Subject: FUND TRANSFER CONTACT

Dear sir

I am Mr. JONATHAN SANKARA, the personal assistant to Charles Taylor, the

formal President of Liberia. He has recently stepped down from power

and is presently in asylum in Nigeria.

Well dear friend we need your assistance in transferring some of the

money derived from Gold excesses into your account, because the

government is making plans to seize all his assets have been

mandated to deal with anyone who offer assistance to have this funds

transferred to his account oversea.

The amount is USD$21 million, in a Security firm Abroad. All that is

needed is for me to instruct the company to transfer the funds to your

account.

I will remunerate you with 25% of the total funds transferred

to your vital bank account as compensation for your assistance; Five

percent (5%) would be set said e to take care of all expenses we may

inure during the transaction. To indicate your interest, kindly provide

me your direct phone and fax numbers and all relevant information for me

to be contacting you and to let you know the roles you will play in making

this transaction successful. All the legal information's concerning this

Money will be sent to you as soon as we agree together.

We all have been confined only to Calabar and all our calls are

monitored, so I will use all available contact to get you all the

needed information. For security reasons always use this email address to contact me confidentially email mrjonathan@mail2broker.com

Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

Mr. JONATHAN SANKARA,
ON BEHALF OF MR TAYLOR.



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