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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: "kan khan" <kankhan2@msn.com>
Reply-To: kankhan2005@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:14:01 +0000
Subject: Mrs Kan Khan.

NAME: Kan Khan,
EMAIL:kankhan2@msn.com
STRRET:Minitary Zone 93,
STATE:Bagdad,
COUNTRY:Iraq:

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs Kan Khan woman bassed in bagdad in iraq, i contact you for a little
assistance you can render to me. Due to the situation here in iraq,those
ofus in the business circle are finding it very difficult to cope with the
situation here,no stable goverment,bomb explotion at strategic places every
now and then,sometimes people find it very difficult to go about their
normal businesses due to fear of being victim of terrorist attack,above
all.The crisis in iraq now has made business activities totaly parallised
for quite sometime now.for intance,no good telephone facilities,no adiquate
security,infact,all most all the basic infrastructure were destroyed during
the recent war in iraq,eversince then,the enveroment in iraq has never been
condusive business wise.

Please,why i need your assistance is that i have about (us$40.000.000)fourty
million united
states Dollars in Security/Finance Company.i inherited the money from my
late husband who was a major general in iraqi army in charge of purchase and
maintainance in the immediate past regime.My intention is to move the money
out of Company and invest the money in stock market or real estate in your
country with the help of an honest person who will work with me as my
foreign associate, i want to invest most of the money abroad to avoid
lossing the money, because it is not wise doing business in the atmosphere
of fear here in iraq,that's why i am calling on you.

If you can honestly collaborate with me ,i am ready to pay you up to 20% of
the total amount if you can sincerely assist me to actualise this project
soon,because the situation here in iraq is very critical,the everyday bomb
explotion seems to have no end.I wait patiently for your urgent response.

Best regards,

Mrs Kan Khan.


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