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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: "augustina martin" <martins@diamondcorporation.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:00:32 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!!!

FROM:MRS AUGUSTINA MARTINS
ABIDJAN-COTE D IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear sir/madam,

I carefully considered sending you this mail, after series of
discussions with my son concerning going into partnership business with you.
However, this isan urgent passionnate plea for your assistance and help,
because of my present predicaments. So I would
like you carefully consider this mail and treat it as very confidential for
us to achieve the success of it, and give me a prompt response.
I am Mrs Augustina Martins the wife to Dr Philip Martins the former
director general of Sierra-leone Gold and diamond corporation who was
assasinated by the rebels loyal to Foday Sankoh the (R U F) leader; I
managed to escape my country with my son ISAAC, with the sum of $26.3
MILLION dollars concealed in a metallic
trunk boxes belonging to my late husband, I discovered this box which
contains this money in my husband's under ground room while searching for
our belonging in readiness to flee my
country for safety.
After his assasination my Husband's friend who operates a fishing trawler
along the west africa coastal line assisted us in moving this boxes to
Abidjan Cote d Ivoire where Iam presently residing as refugee with my son.
On our arrival to Cote d' Ivoire,
I deposited the boxes with a private security and trust company here under
special arrangement as family valaubles by this way, the security company
does not know the real content of the boxes for security reason.
The deposit document issued to me are Available and can be sent to you on
request. So all am asking from you is to assist me by coming over to
Abidjan Cote d'
Ivoire, and help me to claim this money from the security company and pay
it into a domicilliary account here you will open with any of the
international bank for onward transfer to your account in your country for
a profitable business investment. as a refugee here I cannot open an account
with my name or my son name. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT ME ON
AUGUSTINAMARTINS01@YAHOO.COM

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Mrs Augustina Martins .

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