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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: "Collins okolie" <admin@collinsfamilies.com>
Reply-To: collinsokolie@myway.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:16:15 +0000
Subject: COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY

From:COLLINS OKOKLIE
40 WOODALE ST.
EAST WAY,
UK, LONDON
Tel: +44-7031914768
Emails:collinsokolie@myway.com

We are Diplomatic Corp that holds special and valuable consignments for
reputable clients that are honest and trustworthy. We work in collaboration
with top firms all over the world as we have earned a name as a service
whose hallmarks in reliability and confidentiality are revered.

A benefactor has mandated me to get someone that can assist her and her
family in retrieving her package containing some amount of money from a
Global Financial Trust Company in America. The benefactor and her children
have been confined only to their country home and all their calls and
movements are monitored, as a result, it's absolutely impossible for them to
do anything as regards retrieving the money. Their only means of
communication is via Internet and you are being contacted because your
assistance is needed in claiming the funds on their behalf.

The amount was accrued from Diamond sales over a period of ten years and its
250M Pounds (Two hundred and Fifty Million Pounds). These funds are fully
free of any liens, or encumbrances and are clean, clear and have no criminal
origin. The funds have nothing to do with any form of illegality and all
documentations needed to prove the source of the funds were submitted when
the funds were being deposited and these documents would prove the source of
the funds and authenticate the fact that the funds are clean and has no
links whatsoever with either drugs or terrorism.

For your assistance in this transaction, the benefactor and her Children
have agreed to give you 45% of the total amount of money which is equivalent
to 112.5M Pounds (One Hundred and Twelve Million, Five hundred Thousand,
Pounds) and this role simply entails retrieving the funds on their behalf
from the Diplomats in America and all the information needed to claim the
funds would be sent to you as soon as you indicate your interest in
assisting them as well as providing the following information to facilitate
The smooth conclusion of the transaction.

1) Your Full Name: ___________________________
2) Your Address: _____________________________
3) Your Telephone Number: ____________________
4) Your Fax Number: __________________________
5) Your Mobile Number: _______________________
6) The Name of the Closest Airport to your City of Residence:
_____________________
7) Your Age______________________

I await your response Urgently.

MR.COLLINS OKOLIE
collinsokolie@myway.com

N/B:
If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying,
distribution, or other Dissemination or use of this communication is
strictly prohibited.

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