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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: "Isaac Ezekiel" <isaac4real@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:20:19 -0700
Subject: Treat as urgent

From:Isaac Ezekiel Jnr

Attn: President/CEO


I am Isaac Ezekiel Jnr. the only son of late former
Director of finance,Chief Isaac J Ezekiel of
Sierra-Leone diamond and mining corporation.

I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is
my bond, in this proposal. My late father had some
bonds with a gold vault company in Abidjan,I have the

Bond certificates and the passwords to the vaults, i
am not about to tell you the password and how many
bonds involved until I have your words right now I am
on the run, Than is why I dont want to go back there
from UK and where it got bad is that I bear the same
name with my late father my mother Mrs. Mary Ezekiel
and younger sister is here with me in the UK and said
that I should find someone who will help me convert
the gold bonds into cash or move the bonds away from
Abidjan to Europe or America where it could still be
converted to cash.

Now the war in my country is over with the help of
ECOMOG soldiers, the present government of Sierra
Leone has revoked the passport of all officers who
served under the former regime and now ask countries
to expel such person at the same time freeze their
account and confiscate their asset, it is on this note
that I am contacting you, all I need from you is your
Trust.

I am offering you 20 % of the total bonds, now
all my hope is banked on your trust and I really wants
to invest this money a country, were their is
stability of Government, political and economic
welfare.

Dont be alarmed how I contacted you. I was giving this
information by an activist from my country.

Thanks and God bless
Best regards
Isaac Ezekiel Jnr

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