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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: mathew udebe <princemathewudebe@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:35:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: EMERGENCY


Dear Good Friend ,
I pray God this message reaches you in wonderful
spirit.I am making this contactwith you based on trust
and confidence irrespective of the fact that we have
not met before and because of the nature of the
situation I found myself, I am Prince Mathew Udebe the son
of late former Minister Of Mines and Natural Resource
during the time of Major Koromah,the former Military
Headof State of the Republic of Sierra Leone,who was
massacred by President Tinjani Kababah force in their
struggle toreinstate him back topower. My brother and
I are refugee here in Accra,Ghana since the death
ofour father, because of thecondition of his death.
Before the death of my father some months ago he
disclosed to me some money he had deposited in my name
in a neighboring country inWest-Africa. The total
amount of the money is $32M, US dollars and 42 kilos
of Gold all in a security vault in the West Africa
neighboring country, The document regarding
thisconsignment was handed over to me by my father
before his death, I carefully searched and found the
security Companywhere I Confirmed that theconsignment
were deposited for safe Keeping in their security
vaultin the neighboringCountry. The content were
deposited as a family valuable,byVirtue of right as
the son of my late father, the Security Company has
accepted to release the connsignment factually. I am
seeking your assistance because my father has declared
the record with the security company stating that his
foreign partner form oversea shall be authorized
person to make claim on this consignment because of
his position government on which nO name was given by
my father as his foreignpartner. To this effect, I
request to make the beneficiary ofHis consignment in
your name as foreign partner to Claim this
consignment.

For your assistance, room is Open for negotiations.
This is a risk free transaction As my father deposited
this valuable as a personalBelonging. In this
situation every process to completely move This
valuable may not exceed (3) working days,if your
co-operation to assist is sort. I shall be very
Grateful to hear from you, all documents concerning
This are intact with me, please kindly reach me as
Soon as possible trough my email, Tel + 233 244
229 399 E-
Best Regards,
Prince Mathew Udebe
Please all dealing should be confidential







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