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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: "Daniel Okai" <goduz2000@mcdfigment.com>
Reply-To: goduz200@yahoo.de
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:34:31 -0400
Subject: FROM MR. DANIEL OKAI.

Hello,

I hope you will not receive this proposal too surprising. I got your contact E-mail address in the Internet while searching for a trustworthy business partner who I can entrust a reasoning amount of money on his or her care for investment.

I am a Liberian and a cabinet member of President Charles Taylor?s administration. I am presently in Sao Tome under polical asylum status because of the on going war in Liberia. For your information I have secured and sent abroad the sum of TEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR through a diplomatic means. The fund is presently under the custody in a Finance/storage company in oversea. The money was originally meant for the purchase of arms and ammunition to fight the rebel groups in Liberia but from the look of things it is like we cannot continue with the war because of the intervention of President George Bush of America .As a result of the present development I now send the money abroad for my personal investment without the knowledge of our Government.

My main purpose of writing you is to seek your partnership if you could make claim of the money from the storage company as the beneficiary for the benefit of both us. I am willing to discuss sharing ratio in any reliable business you would embark.

Details of how you are going to claim the money from the storage company will be made now to you as soon as you indicate your interest in this transaction.Do send me the following details.

1. Full Names,contact address
2. Telephone and fax numbers.

Please treat this proposal with utmost confidence.Wait to hear from you.

Best regards,

Mr.Okai Daniel

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