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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: "Miss.Nancy Bony," <nancy_bony2001@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nancy_bony2003@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:56:47 +0200
Subject: Message From Nancy

Dear One,

Iam Miss.Nancy Bony, from Sierraloen living in, Cote d'Ivoire. West Africa.

How are you and your work today hope all is fine.. Please, I have an issue that will help us to go into a long time relationship and financial transaction for our mutual benefits. I m' 25 years of age, the only daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Bony Fofona. The directors of BONYF INVESTMENTS LTD
My father was a well known Gold and Cocoa Merchant in Abidjan( Ivory Coast )Before the death of my father on 10th Aug 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he called me as his beloved daughter and told me that he has a sum of USD$3.5 million in fix deposit account in Bank here which he personally hand over the certificate of the deposited fund to me as my inheritance.

The company was closed down because there was nobody to handle the company and now my late father`s relatives are trying to eliminate me so that they will use the opportunity to take over my inheritance which originally belongs to me as culture demand as the only child of my late father..

He used my name as his beloved daughter as the next of kin in depositing the fund. And I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for an investment purpose.

I humbly seek for your assistance, to help me to transfer this money in your account for investment, and to serve as a guardian of this fund..
Since I am still a student, to make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education.

Thanks as you made up your heart to help an orphan like me.
Best Regards,

Miss.Nancy Bony.

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