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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: "NL.H.Ahmmed" <niss24@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: niss_kekelyn1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:32:06 +0200
Subject: assistance

Hello Sir,
My name is Latifa HALLOUANI AHMED.I and my 2
sons Ahmed and Shiek flew away from contry Irak for
our dear lives due to the anti Sadam govt. war possed
by the US.
My late husband deposited the sum of 72MUSdollar
in security company in Africa due to the unassured
economic stability in my contry.This was realised from
aprivate oil exploitation.This was supposed to undergo
a change of ownership process which was accomp
lished before the death of my husband and the supposed
would havebeen benefisiary.The two died at this same
spot in a public restaurant in Bahgdad by a sucide
bomber.

Now,our aim is recover the fund.Only one person in
this world knows about the fund because he accompanied
my husband to the transaction which is the family
lawyer and he promised to recover the fund to us only
if we can provide a foreign patner that is faithful.

Contacting you is based on trust and humanity to
assist us act as the beneficiary so that the money can
be transfered to your account in your contry.Do not
worry about the documents that enable the transaction
to be effective.Your assistance is entiled 20% percent
of the total amount,10% for expenses,70%for us when we
get to your country for our investments.The documents
will forward to on the recipt of yur williness to
assist my family.
I am not an islamic extremist,I m modest.


THANKS

NL.H.Ahmmed

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