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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: "Miss, Rose Deko" <rosedeko2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: 7rose@myway.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:29:27 +0100
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION IS NEEDED

Dear friend,

Greetings to you.Please pardon me for contacting you
without any formal appointment or communication do
consider my status as asylum seeker in Dakar Senegal.I
will like to seek your assistance in receiving and
investing the sum of US$4.8M held in a holding finance
company in europe.The money was deposited by my late father
who was killed last year by the rebels during the uprising
in Abidjan-Cote d' Ivoire. He was until his sudden death a
diamond /cocoa dealer in Angola and Cote d' Ivoire which is
where he made his wealth. Me and my mother arrived Dakar few
days ago and confirmed the validity of this deposit then
decided to contact you for assistance in view of our present
situations. We got your contact through the Internet data base
while searching for my father's friends in your country.

More details will be given to you as soon as i hear
from you.Please include some of your personal details
for us to establish a good business and family
relationship.

I look forward to hearing from you
Honestly yours

Rose Deko.

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