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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: "Joshua Crane" <crane_joshua2006@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: joshua_crane2006@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:03:59 +0000
Subject: Your Response Please

From Joshua Crane
Avenue 21 Rue 13 Triechville
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire

Dear One

Greetings in the Lord !!

Please I do not mean to bother you but I am in a situation that needs urgent assistance.
My parents are from Liberia but I am residence here as a political refugee.My parents werte assassinated during the reign of ex-President Charles Taylor when the rebels attacked the capital city of Libera,Freetown.
Before the death of my parents,my father was a Gold and Diamond merchant in the West African Coast.
He has made a deposit of Seven Million,Five Hundred American Dollars cash in a bank account here in Abidjan and 450kg of Gold in the security vault at the bank.Below are the standard of the Gold.


Commodity: Gold dust (AU)
Quantity: 450 KG
Quality: 22 carat
Purity: 98 %

Please I need your immediate support to receive this fund in your bank account and herlp me to search for a buyer regarding the Gold,the price of eack kg of the Gold depends on your negotiation with the buyer overthere but I would offer you 30% of the total sum of Seven Million,Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and the sales of the 450kg of Gold.
You should contact me as soon as yopu receive this mail for further explanation.

Thanks and stay well

Best Regards

Joshua Crane

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