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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: "John Kelly" <jkelly@lexpress.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jkell@tsamail.co.za
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:19:50 -0700
Subject: Be the trustee

From: Mr.JOHN KELLY. {Esq.}
40 WOODALE STR,
LAGOS STATE,
NIGERIA,
WEST AFRICA.
Email:jkelly@islandmail.cc
8th June 2005,

Dear Sir/Madam,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition
having gone through your remarkable profile on the Internet. Though,
this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you
through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most
secured medium of communication.

l am a financial consultant a Nigerian West Africa .l have a client
(widow) she has US38.6Million(Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred
Thousand U.S Dollars) with a Private Equity Investment Trust Company
for safekeeping.

And she is willing to offer you 35% of the total fund if you can
assist her transfer the funds to your country or any bank of your
wish. She wishes to invest in a stable economy. Her interest is in
companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms.

My client is interested in placing part of her fund in your company,
if your country.s bi-laws allow foreign investment. I guarantee you
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me urgently by E-mail as you provide me the
following as listed below.
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.
Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.
Yours faithfully,

Mr. JOHN KELLY. {Esq.}
E-MAIL: jkelly@islandmail.cc
N: B the fund is not from drug and laundering and this transaction
need utmost confidentiality.


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