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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: jeff sannoussi <jeffsannoussi45@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Prince jeff Sannoussi(contact me now)


Dear
I am contacting you with reason that we are going to be of a great use to each other My name is Prince Jeff Sannoussi, Iam the first son of Late Zainoul Abidine Sanoussi. Untill his death,my father was the former foriegn Affairs Minister of my country(Guinea-Conakry).
Before I go into further details please be informed that I am writing without any other person`s pre-knowledge of my
contacting you, Therefore I will appreciate same attitude to be maintained all through Days before the death of my father he revealed to me about a deposit of a trunk box which he deposted with my name in a private security company in Accra, Ghana for security reasons, although he registered the contents as precious stones but the real content of these trunk box is fhe sum of USD42M (Forthy Two Million United States of American Dollars) which was his share from a secret sale of Diamond when he was in the office, he could not deposit this funds in a financial institution for fears of the fundsbeing confiscated.
After the burial of my father, I made frantic effort on the best way to handle this money. I sought advice from an attorney who advised that I must seek for a trust-worthy foreign business partner. However, I sincerely ask for your assistance to get this Funds out of this country, and your share for assisting us will be 15% of the total sum, 5% will be use for upsetting all the expenses incurred in the course of concluding this venture and the remaining 80% that will be for me and my family
The consignment will be released within seven 7 days of my being in receipt of your reply via my email address and I want to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free In case you have any question donot hesitate to contact me as I wait for your swift and favourable response to my e mail
jeffsannoussi@sifymail.com
Best Regards
From Prince jeff Sannoussi(contact me now)




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