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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: "FROM VICTORIA MENDE" <vicmende@uk2.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vicmende@walla.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:02:13 +0000
Subject: GOOD NEWS WE MEET

Dear it gives me pleasure to make your aquaintance and wish to tell you all about me wish I would like you to do same too, I am originally from Liberia and living currently in senegal and my parents died during the war in my country and my father deposited money in a bank which is 12.9 million US dollars and as a result of this war I did not finish my school and which I want to finish it any day things get better, I am staying in camp here in Dakar with reverend who I told about all my plight which made him to give me access to internet, and I write through his computer and you can get me via his phone number:+221-4850803, so when you call tell him to link you to me ,and to let you know my main aim of contacting you is to asking for your help to claim this money from the bank because according to my age and refugee status I am not legible to apply for this money , I am still 21 years old and I do not want any body to know about this till this week when I was !
thinking about the pains that I am facing while having such amount in bank which i am the next of kin ,I now decide to contact you and to confide in you my secret with belief that you will help me get the money out of the bank which I will compensate you I am confiding in you my secret with the strong faith that you will not betray me or run away with the money once you claim it. Just write to the bank and tell them that you want to claim it on my behalf. to call me this is the number of the Reverend George Jacob in charge of the church in the camp :+221-4850803 so I would be waiting for your call for future talks .You will take 25% percent of the whole money while 5 percent goes for the expenses towards claiming this money ,please I am confiding in you in desperation therefore do not let another person know about this money,only contact the bank for therelease of the money into your account .Please contact me by above number today for further information.!
or my other mail contacts at ( vicmende@walla.com <../s
rc/compose.php?send_to=vicmende%40walla.com>) or victoriamende@yahoo.ca <../src/compose.php?send_to=victoriamende%40yahoo.ca>) BEST REGARDS, VICTORIA MENDE.

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