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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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• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: prince williams <prince_williamsci6@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:33:25 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From WILLIAM PRINCE


>From WILLIAM PRINCE
Avenue 10 rue 13
Zone 4 Abidjan
TEL 002250568 4747

Dear Respectful One,

Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before. Introducing myself, I am Mr WILLIAM PRINCE 22 years of age the only son of the late Mr and Mrs PRINCE.

My father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan(IvoryCoast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips.
Before the death of my father on 29th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of USD$17.5M (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S),deposited in a Security and finance company in (Abidjan Côte d?Ivoire, that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin in depositing the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management here on how best to transfer this money to overseas please.He
told me that the fund is a trunk box as such the security does not know the contents of the box.I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1- To assist me in providing an account of yours where this fund can quietly be transferred into.
2- To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am still in the university.
3- To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to help me secure a residential permit in your country. Moreover,

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas, while 5% will be set aside
to offset any expenses we may incur.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time
if you signify interest to assist me.
May the almighty God bless you ans you come up to help an orphan like me.
Remain blessed in the Lord.
Yours Sincerely
WILLIAM PRINCE.







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