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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: mr ken nnamani <offsenpresident_kennnamani@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:40:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: contact my secretary


ATTN:SIR

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered under the cooperation of a new partiner from Paraguay.

Presently i'm in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,ididn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failedus somehow.Now contact my secretary in Nigeria his name is philip eze.with his direct phone number 234-803-7106-104. or email address is philip_eze2005@yahoo.com ask him to send you the total $3.5million us dollars which i kept for your compersation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.i appreciated your efforts at that time very much,so feel free and get intouched with my secretary philip eze.and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at this time,in the moment, i'm very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partiner are having at hand, finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive those money,so feel free to get intouch with philip eze.to send the amount to you without any delay.

with best regards,

MR ken nnamani.




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