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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: Cynthia Milan <eunice_milan11@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: divine1cynthia@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 08:45:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: From Cynthia


Dear,

How are you today?

My name is Cynthia Milan 23years old girl the daughter of late Dr.Clement Milan, he was international business man, he deal on timber business when he was alive.

Though we dont know each other before, but i believe that relationship and comunication with someone you never know before start's a day.

There is this amount of seven million US dollar($7,000,0000,00) which my late father deposited in one of the security company here in Abidjan before he, my mother and my only sister died on moter accident here in cote d'ivoire West Africa.

Now as the only person left in the family i decided to contact you to HELP me retrieve this money from the security company where it was deposited as a family veluables by my late father and we will lodge it into a bank in your country after retrieving it from the security company here and we will invest it in any profitable investment in your country.

If you can be of a great HELP to me i will be please to offer you 10% of the total fund for HELPING me after the money have been retrieved from the security company and you will arang for my coming to meet you in your country.

I will be waiting for your urgent response so that i will give you more details and information .

Thanks and God bless you.

Miss Cynthia Milan.






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