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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. Stephanie Goha." <stephaniehousemed@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: stephanie_goha@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:01:32 +0400
Subject: I Need Your Assist To Help Me Invest This Fund.

Dear,


How are you hope all is well with you and your family,am a girl from sierra lone, am25 years old, my Name is Miss. Stephanie Goha, am a house girl as my profession, but I have this thing to tell you which i believe it can be helpful to both off us.


Like I told you at the beginning that I am a house help am working under a woman but she is dead now and she is a very well know woman and she is a Diamond Marshant in Ghana but she lives in sierra lone and am with her all this years working under her as med.


So she is dead now and she is not having any kid nor husband,and she is having a fund in a private account in Europe amount of money $ 8.5 million us dollars which she willed to me as a beneficiary and right now am in sierra lone and the fund is in Europe with Equity and Financial Company.


So I want you to help me and invest it in your country,that is while am pleading for your assistance so that you can help me claim the fund to your country and invest it there for me.So that I can come there for schooling and you use the other to for investment.

Am going to give you 32% and her lawyer Mr.Platonadze Nodariy 18% off it to you for helping me, please I really need your assistance. my late madam lawyer can reach you and tell the firm securing the funds to release it immediately I make you my beneficiary. His family lawyer base in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) you contact him, E-mail: platonadzenodariy@consultant.com


Thanks for your understanding, looking forward to hear your response.


Best regards,

Yours Faithfully,

Miss. Stephanie Goha.

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