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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: "MIKE OKORO" <mikeokoro555@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:30:32 +0100
Subject: RE: winner

This is a kind of promotion that happens every year to help the use of
internet nationwide,and it was played with peoples name and email addresses
that was found through the search engine mainly on students websites.
Forward me your information below to enable me obtain your winning
certificate,

batch and serial number
name
address
age
sex
nationality
occupation
phone/fax.

Here is my phone number +234-803-400-1387 if you are calling from (USA) this
is how you dial 011-234-803-400-1387 because am not in USA i am in AFRICA.
Congratulations...
Rev (Dr) Mike Okoro

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Anti-fraud resources:

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