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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: "miss Binta Doglea.." <bintadogolea@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: binta_dogolea@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:46:30 +0000
Subject: ARE YOU INTRESTED ?

Dear ,
I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance . I will be so glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now.

I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

I am Binta Dogolea from Liberia,the dauhter of Late Enoch Dogolea a former Vice President,and chairman National Iron Ore Company (NIOC) Liberia.My father was murdered by president Charles Taylor government,in which him denied.

The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help to hand over some huge amount of money my Late father deposited for me as beneficiary.This money is Nine Millon Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars is deposited some years ago and he made me the sole beneficiary .

I have contacted them so many times and what they told me was due to my refugee status they will not release it to me,that i should present somebody or a company to stand on my behalf.

I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to make this claim,to stand as my partner oversea and in time of the investment as well.upon receiving your mail i will give you all the information.
send me your contact information, waiting .

Yours,
Binta Doglea..

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