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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: "Mr Fofana Sankoh" <fofana2sankoh2003@yahoo.ie> (may be fake)
Reply-To: priest_fofana@yahoo.se
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:38:03 +0200
Subject: IAM VERY HAPPY TO CONTACT YOU

Dear Sir,


Having gotten your contact from your country's trade journal and because of the urgency of this mail.I want you to please receive for me at once the Amount of ($18,000,000 US Dollars in your Bank Account Abroad for safe keeping and Investment purposes. I am interested in investing this sum in your lucrative venture for a long and lasting joint business relationship with you.This huge amount will be wired to your Account for Foreign Investment purposes.All documents attached to this funds will changed into your name for safe keeping.


The funds are available as genuine and will be released after you have
shown proven interest in your response to this proposal.If you can assure me that you can guide me through the investment opportunities in your Country,after hearing from you,i will furnish you with more details on the next step forward. You will be expected to provide the ideas and we will finance it with the funds that iam going to send to you. Also let me know about your Country's tax laws on investments in your Country.


Iam Fofana Sankoh,son of the late Sierra-Leonean rebel leader,Corporal
Foday Sankoh.Iam here in exile as a political refugee seeking asylum in
Cotonou the capital of Benin Republic(West Africa).Iam hiding here in
Benin as a result of political persecution meted out to me back home in my country by the Sierra-Leone Government.After hearing from you,i will
furnish you with more details on the next step forward.



Yours sincerely,
Mr Fofana Sankoh.
Tel:00229-95-407007

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