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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: "michael brandon" <michael_brandon@eagle-international-uk-webmail.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:40:59 +0000
Subject: PERSONAL ASSISTANT FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT


FROM: MICHAEL BRAND
FORMER, PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO: LURENT KABILA

Kindly permit me to introduce myself to you and I sincerely hope that you
will give me the
co-operation,confidentiality and assistance that I am in dire need of
urgently.
My name is MICHAEL BRAND, I was a Personal Assistance to former Congo
President,Late Laurent Kabila, who was assassinated early 2001. As a result
of his assassination and the following political situation in my country,
travelling out of the country has been restristed by the government of the
day.However before his Death, we have secured the sum of US$45,000,000
(Forty Five Million Dollars) in a security company with all tittle
documents in my name.
My reason for writing to you for your assistance in keeping this money in
your personal or company account pending when I am able to get my traveling
documents to enable me travel out of Congo so that I can come to your
country to invest the money.
But I will prefer you email me so that we talk what your share will be for
your assistance and how I will give you the tittle documents to have the
money freely.
I want assure you that this transactiion is one hundred percent risk-free
because I have followed all the legal procedures for both local and
international law of Democratic Republic of Congo as regard a transaction
of this magnitude.
Send me an urgent email indicating your interest. You can reach me by this.
EMAIL:michaelbrandpersonalassistance@yahoo.co.uk

Waiting to hear from you.
Thanks.
MICHAEL BRAND.

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