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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 freeman" <john@johnfreeman40.org>
Reply-To: jhnfreeman40@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:45:33 +0000
Subject: FROM JOHN FREEMAN

Dear friend

From: Mr JOHN FREEMAN

I am Mr.JOHN FREEMAN a consultant agent to Barclays Bank
Plc London, I have a lucrative business I want to share
with you. I am involved in distributing,buying of stocks and channeling of
contractors funds And consignment direct to their countries. Me and my
colleague has diverted one trunk Consignment marked privilege confidential
containing 11.5m us dollars with your cooperation we will want to deliver
the consignment direct to you in your country.

There is a secrete arrangement involved in the
shipment of these consignment of funds which usually
indicated(PCC) privilege confidential consignment with
special diplomatic immunity. We have concluded modalities of operation and
your name will be listed by my Colleague who is the Foreign Payment officer
as the rightful beneficiary of the consignment and it will be deliver direct
to you without further delay
and without any complications. We will provide you with all the information
and code reference of the consignment to claim and receive the consignment
upon arrival in your country. We will come to your country immediately you
receive the consignment to invest the funds in your country or we will
disburse funds among ourselves depending on what we will decide.

I will need your
(1)FULL NAME AND CONTACT ADDRESS
(2)YOUR OCCUPATION/JOB
(3)PHONE NUMBER
So, that i can forward it to the Foreign Payment officer to effect the
necessary papers.

Kindly contact me urgently through contact
email given above.

Yours faithfully
JOHN FREEMAN

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