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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 George Kofi" <georgekofi@sify.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:44:48 +0400
Subject: Need investments?

Dear Friend,


You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I got your contact from the Chamber of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business. My name is George Kofi, I was a Personal Assistant to the Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in January and my aim of writing to you is because of the
need for a trusted and honest person, who I can entrust the sum of US$14,800,000 (Fourteen million, eight hundred thousand USDollars).


Source of the money:


I and the late president secured this money in a security firm in Accra Ghana, in my name before his death. Now that he is late, I want to transfer the money out of Africa, for investment in your country, I can not travel out of where I am on asylum, hence I am asking for your assistance to have this money in your care pending when I will secure travel documents to come over to your country.If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for you, 25%, 75% for me. I have all the title documents to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and legitimate. Please advise me on your position by this e-mail immedaitely,



Please I await your prompt reply.



MR George Kofi

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