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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: "ALHAJI AHMMED" <alhaji00@excite.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alhaji000@excite.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:21:44 +0000
Subject: I will be waiting to hear from you

Hello,My Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.I am
the bill and exchange manager in African Development Bank.I
Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust
and confident that i am about to repose on you for the
mutual benefit of our both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of
$22.3million immediately to your account.The money has been
dormant for years in our Bank here without any body coming
for it.

We want you to act as a next of kin to the deceased
customer (Mr.John Korovo From Jordan)He died since July
2000 with his next of in a gastly motor accident here as
they were coming back from Bobo Dioulasso ( a city about
400km away from Ouagadougou the capital of Burkina faso.He
nationalized here for more than 14 years befoe his death.

I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an
abandoned fund.This is the reason why I and other
colleagues under me now decided to contact you,so
that bank will release the money to you as the nearest
person to the deceased cutomer since nobody is coming again
for the fund.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top
secret,Upon receipt of your reply,i will send you full
details on how the business will be executed and also note
that you will have 30% of the above mentioned sum if you
agree to transaction for this transaction.

Dr.Alhaji Ahmmed
PS:Reply to my alternative email via(alhaji00@excite.com)

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