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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: "Linda Kamara" <lindaakamara@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: linda_gkamara@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:27:54 -0700
Subject: PLEASE YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED.

My Dear ,

Please kindly permit me to inform you of my desire to Establish business relationship with you. I am a Linda Kamara the only daugther of General Mohammed Kamara.
My father was a very wealthy cocoa and coffee Merchant based in Sierra Leone the economic capital of Freetown.

Please I need your help, since after the incidence that lead to the death of my father, my mother died on the 1st November 1990, my father took me so special because am motherless and lonely, I know we have not met before but I am contacting you with due sense of humanity and responsibility and with the few awareness that you will give it a mutual understanding. I am soliciting for an Assistance to move the sum of us$16,105,000 (sixteen million one hundred and five thousand united states dollars) to your country for investment. The fund is presently in a security company in Ghana for safety since on the 12- 2- 1999.

My father told me that the real content was not declared as it was kept as photographic equipment I need you as a partner to assist in transferring the fund and provide good investment plans for it. As I am a girl of 22 years and I whish to continue my education in your country. The fund will be under your investment control for three Years during which only the profit will be shared annually 60% for me and 40% for you annually I am contacting you with the fear of GOD in any thing I am doing so please I want us to build trust to each other.

The deposit contract document/prove shall be sent to you as soon as you indicate your interest.

Thanks in anticipation of your response.
Best Regards.
Linda Kamara

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