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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: "Jean-Crester Oyaole" <ojeegho_za@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:43:16 +0000
Subject: Joint Investment

Attn: Managing Director

Joint Investment

It is my pleasure communicating with you.

Since we haven’t met once, this message will definitely come to you as a
surprise. I contacted you through this means because I believe that this is
a better way for a formal introduction. I got your contact info from the
South Africa International Chamber Of Commerce and Industry. I hope that you
receive this letter in good condition.

I am Mr. Jean-Crester Oyaole (Ojeegho). I am a citizen of Liberia.

I request your kind support and assistance to transfer the sum of Twenty
Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$29,500,000.00)
to your personal or company account in your country. These funds are family
inheritance, from my late father Dr. Augustin Oje Oyaole. My father worked
with exile Charles Taylor former President of Liberia as his personal
financial adviser. My Father was murdered in cold blood during the rebel war
in my country Liberia.

I am presently residing in South Africa as a refugee (Asylum Seeker). I left
my country Liberia to South Africa where I am living now after the death of
my sister and mom who where raped and killed by rebels and also after
surviving the brutal injuries that I sustained from the rebels attack.

I am willing to invest these funds with you in your company or we can share
it by 30% to 65%, 30% for you and 65% for me which I will use to set up an
investment in your country through your guidance and assistance, while 5%
will be used to reimburse any expenses you and I might incur in the process
of the transfer. Forgive me for the inconveniences that this transaction
might bring to you. I contacted you because I really need your support.

I will be grateful to give more details and modalities needed for smooth and
successful completion of this transaction and also where the funds presently
are, as soon as I hear from you. Contact me immediately with my below
private telephone or email address.

Please, treat with utmost confidentiality or pretend that you never receive
an email from me.

I anticipate your quick response.

Best Regards,
Mr. Jean-Crester Oyaole
Johannesburg South Africa
+27738115748

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