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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: "MUHAM MOHIS" <muham_mohis03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: muh_mohis2@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:48:29 +0000
Subject: Seeking for join pertner Confidenial.

Greetings and Compliments of the Season,

I am the MUHAM MOHIS
I am working at the HILL TOP SECURITY COMPANY BURKINA FASO (HSC). In my
department I discovered ONE TRUNK BOX belonging to one of our foreign
customer Mr Kita Ture who was killed along with his entire family at crisis
in COTE D IVOIRE in the year 2001 between the rebels and the government
troop.

Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim the trunk box he deposited in our company as
africa art work for security purposes but reveal to me he met in the company
privately before he deopited the consignment that the trunk box contains
eight million five hundred thousand us dollars. 8,500.000.00 USD.

The trunk box cannot released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or foreign partiner as indicated in our security guidelines. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I now decided to make this businness proposal to
you since i am aware of the consignment before he deposited it in our
company.

Now, i want you to come up as the foreign partner to release the trunk box
to you. For safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it. I dont want this money to go into the company treasury as unclaimed
consignment. The company law and guideline here stipulates that if such
consingnment remained unclamed after six years, the consingment will be
transfered into the company treasury as unclaimed items. I make that 30 % of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me .

There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate excussion, you will
apply first to the security company as foreign partner to Mr Kita Ture as
soon as both of us arrives to a conclusion of this deal.
Note: The Security company do not know that the content of the consignment
is money.

It was registered as african art work as i advised Mr Kita Ture the day he
opened to me the contents of the consignment.
I wait for your urgent reply.

Yours faithfully,
DR MUHAM MOHIS

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