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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: "Tettey Boateng" <tetteyboateng@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: henryasamoah@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:16:43 +0000
Subject: Best Regard

Dear Friend,

I am Henry Tettey Boateng, the son of late Dr .Abban .A. Boateng,of blessed
memory,from Kono District North of Sierra Leone west Africa.

MY late father DR. ABBAN .A. BOATENG, before his death hold a very sensitive
position in PRESIDENT TEJAN KABBAH'S government in my country SIERRA LEONE,My
father has a bullet shot by the rebels west side boys on his way to LUISA,
a border town between Sierra Leone and Liberia, He was later conveyed to
Abidjan LA- COTE-DIOVRE for a medical treatment wherein he later died, in
the hospital bed my father reveal and confide in me about one metallic box
( consignment) he deposited with security company in Accra Ghana, containing
( US$28.3 MILLION ) TWENTY EIGHT MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS.

According to my late father, Nobody in the security company knows the real
contents of the metalic box becuase he wisely declared the content as family
tresures and a gift items to his foreign partner which bears nobody's name.
Since the death of my father the rebels has held us hostage untill the intervention
of the UNITED NATION SECRECTARY GENERAL MR KOFI ANNAN whom secure a peace
agrement with the rebels that led to our release, All the refugee moved to
the GHANA concentrated refugee camp but I am in a hotel room with my sick
mother and my only Sister.

We are presently in the hotel room now seeking for your help and assistance
for you to come to my aid I proposed that you stand as my proxy person that
is my late father's foriegn partner,so as to get the metalic box out of the
security company and have it transfer into your foreign account oversea,
Since I am too young to handle this transaction on my own. This transaction
is now only known by you,myself and my old mother whom is now with me, Pls,the
secrecy and confidentiality should be maintained for the successful transfer
of this fund. I will not hesitate to forward to you all the documents my
late father gave to me for the relerase of the consignment from the company.

The most important is to you to come down here in Ghana to assist me for
the retrive of the consignments from the security company. I am waiting seriously
to hear from you soonest,for more detail informations.

Faithfully,
Henry Boateng Asamoah.

___________________________________________________________

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