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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: "Oboete Jack" <oboetejack101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: oboetejack01@compaqnet.fr
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:07:53 -0800
Subject: GOOD DAY...................

Dear Sir,

Top of the day to you my friend? It may astonish you to be informally
contacted for a pending transaction of this magnitude more especially
since you do not know me personally. The purpose of my introduction is
to bring to bear my present position and the very need for true and
solicited help with regards the transaction at hand.
I am Obete Jack, the personal assistant to Charles Taylor, the formal
President of Liberia. He has stepped down from power under serious
pressure from the president of America and AOU and is presently in
asylum in Nigeria. Well dear friend I need your Assistance and Trust
in transferring some of the money derived from gold excesses during
his tenure into your account, because the present government in power
is making plans to seize all his assets, and I happens to be the only
one for now that knows and with the documents of where i kept the
funds.

View these websites:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/taylor.warcrimes/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/liberia.1300/index.html

The amount is USD$13.6 million, in a Security firm in Europe. All that
is needed is for me to instruct the company to transfer the funds to your
account, I will remunerate you with 15% of the total funds transferred to
our vital bank account as compensation for your assistance. To indicate your
interest, kindly provide me your direct phone and fax numbers and all
relevant information for me to contact you with more details. All the legal
information concerning this Money will be sent to you as soon as we agree
together.At the moment we all have been confined on political asylum in
Calabar the southern part of Nigeria and the United State of America and
International community are struggling to try Charles Taylor in world court,
for war crime.Please if this proposal satisfies you and you are willing to
assist me
with honesty and trust, please contact me by email immediately with your
full names, telephone and
NOTE: Please kindly state your early response immediately on this Email :
(oboetejack01@compaqnet.fr)
ax numbers to enable an immediate

contact as I have advised above.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Best Regards

Obete Jack.

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