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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: susan smith <susansmithsky@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: susansmith91@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:57:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM: MRS SUSAN SMITH.



FROM: MRS SUSAN SMITH.

Attention:

I am Mrs Susan Smith from London,A wife to late Mr Clement Smith.My late husband was the chairman of a branch of texaco petrolum oil company in london.On 13 june 2000, My husband travelled for a board meeting, on his way to the meeting he had a fatal accident and was taken to a hospital. Four days before he died on 17 of june 2000, he called me to his sick bed and told me that he deposited Two metallic boxes in a security save company here in london.And the Content of the boxes is { US26,million dollars} cash. But he deposited it as the boxes of family treasure that contains Gold and Jewelries.Then after my husband's burial ceremony ,I fell sick and was taken to hospital and i was diagnose, it was discovered from the diagnosis that i have a cancer of the breast, i was advised by the doctor that i need an urgent surgical operation to forstall further spread of the cancer.consequent upon this i desperately need funds to carry out this operation.It is pertinent at this stage to!
inform
you that my husband did not write any will at the time of his death.The money mentioned above is the only asset within my knowledge which belongs to my husband.My late husband's brother dispossesed me and my only son Edward,of my late husband's properties because of the absence of a will. may i trust you with this deal,i wish to secretly transfer the above mentioned fund out of the save house to your country.All i need from you is your maximum cooperation and assistance to effect the transfer of this fund. considering the foregoing, i expect your urgent response bearing in mind the danger any delay will cause to my life. your services will not be a gratuitous one since you will be rewarded in accordance with an agreed percentage when you respond.This business is absolutely risk-free. i am constrained to trust you with this deal believing that you will understand the exigency of the situation and the magnitude of the fund involved. may i also reiterate the fact that this dea!
l is a
secretive one as such third parties should not be involved to avoid decimating the fund, the subject matter of the deal.I have mapped out 40% of this money for your good help.

Thanks in anticipation of your immediate response.

MRS.SUSAN SMITH.



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