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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: "alice johnson" <alicejohnson02@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:03:05 +0000
Subject: PLS HELP ME AND MY SON

PLEASE ASSIST THE NEEDY I want to crave your indulgence in reading through
this mail to understand my predicament.I am Mrs Alice johnson, a Liberia
refugee currently residing at the refugee camp here in Accra-Ghana. All hope
of having a better future was shattered by the war in Liberia, I and my son
being the only surviving family of the slain Minister of Mineral Resources
of the defunct government of liberia were left with no alternative than to
flee to Ghana. Please I am contacting you today for you to extend a hand of
fellowship to poor victims of circumstance. I want you to consider affecting
my life and that of my son. All hopes was lost until recently when my late
Husband Attorney visited the refugee camp and I was fortunate to meet him.
He had come searching for us at the camp to pass on certain information that
will affect our existence. He said my late Husband had deposited Eight
million united state dollars ($8m) in a trunk of boxes/gold and diamond with
a Security Company here in Ghana stating my son as the Beneficiary in event
of his death.Considering his relationship with my late Husband, he has since
handed these documents to me and I have equally gone to verify these claims
hence I am contacting you to assist me in retrieving these consignments.
Please, what I actually want from you now is to assist me in retrieving and
receiving these consignments on my behalf because I cannot handle this as a
result of my current situation. I have not disclosed this to anyone before
contacting you hence I want you to kindly keep this as confidential.I beg
you in the name of God not to underestimate my claims and request because I
shall endeavor to furnish you with the necessary documents.Please be kind
enough to send me an email cos for now i dont have a phone. Thank you very
much and God shall increase you and your family more abundantly.


BELOW IS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION:alice_johnson20042005@yahoo.com


Best Regards
Mrs Alice Johnson.
(for the family)

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