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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: "Mbah Chris" <chrismbah@chrismb60.net>
Reply-To: chrismb@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:51:27 +0000
Subject: MUTUAL PARTNERSHIP

From: Mr. Chris Mbah,
Lagos, Nigeria.
Alternative email address: chrismb@o2.pl

I wish you a warm and happy day.

I hope this letter meets you well; I am Mr. Chris Mbah from Nigeria. I am
sorry if I have intruded on your privacy or barged in on you without your
permission. I have interest of investing in your country and as such decided
to establish contact with you for assistance in this regard. But the funds
for this investment are still with a Security Company for security and
political reasons.

And I need your assistance first in the following areas:

(1) Help by liaising with the Security Company as my partner and beneficiary
to collect these funds from them and then facilitate its transfer to your
designated account in your country or any other account we may both agree on
with the assistance of the Security Company officials for
investment. This is because of my inability to own a foreign account in my
name presently for political reasons.


(2) Helping me to carry out feasibility study on areas/choice of investment
you deem best for me. I retired as financial consultant and was the last
personal financial adviser to our late Head of State before his demise and
have no intention of carrying out any further investment programmed in my
country for security reasons.

Please if after going through this email you do not find it necessary to
assist me, kindly disregard it and send a formal response. Otherwise include
your fax and phone numbers in your reply mail via through my private email
address: chrismb@o2.pl

Thanks You,
Mr. Chris Mbah.

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