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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: hentro@sify.com (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 03:08:58 -0700
Subject: assistance

Hi

please pardon me for write you this may though it may be the first time we are
meeting and kindly listen to my plight,
i am kareem Vetch, the wife of late col. Borris Vetch whom past on during
the Tsunami disaster, before my huband dead he was a militery inteligeny with
the Indinasia government. But while he dead me and my son were completely neglected,
as a result we were help back to Africa with the help of a friend Mrs. Tching Udzie
and ever since life has not being the same. And due to my curiousity to get an assistance
i came accros your address and i felt a strange feeling in me that you could be the one to help us.
my late husband's bank has decided to hand over my husband acrume fixed deposite
fund for me and my son as the beneficiary, but they need me to provide a foreign
account into which they can pay in the money or i may recomend any person
who i know may be to honest to help me recieve the cash. please what ever assistant you
can to help me, i promise you will get 20% of the cash and your contigencies
will be taken care of as soon as the money is acredited into your account.
please should you find it helpful to assist me or hear more from me please
reply me through my personal e-mail address (kareemvetch@fastmail.fm)
for privacy purpose . Also i will like us to discuse further on phone , so please send me your
phone numbers when replying.

Thanking you in anticipation, may you find favor in the sight of God as you
help me and my littli son
Best regards
Mrs. Kareem Vetch.

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