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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: "james williams" <jameswilliams22@msn.com>
Reply-To: jameswilliams21@compaqnet.fr
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:38:42 +0000
Subject: I want you to assist me

Dear

For more confidentiality of this transaction, plz reply me through my
private email address (jameswilliams21@compaqnet.fr)
OR YOU CAN CALL ME MYPHONE 234-8060918382

I want you to assist me and my partner to recieve a package which we are
working on how to move it out of our country down to your country,and we
promise to give you 20% of the package.We only need(1)Your full name (2)
Your address (3) Mobile Telephone number(4) Your international passport
number or Photograph for us to make the deposit with your name.The flight
that will be living with the package will be living this weekend that is why
we need your assistance for us to make sure the package live immediately.

The content of the package is $15 million U.S dollars our company Sell Bloc,
Crude Oil want to send this money to our customers in Europe through a
security company and it was declare and tagged Artifact.We want to divert
the money to you so that we all will shear it,So we want you to send us the
needed informations for us to deposit the money with your name to the
security company that will be living with the package. Please we are sorry
if we have offended you for the assistance,but we believe the business will
change our life.I wait your reply with the informations so that we will
deposit it with your name as the rightfullybeneficiary and after that we
give you the:Goods Number, Code,The Tracking Number.

Thanks and God bless us,
DR JAMES WILLIAMS.

For more confidentiality of this transaction, plz reply me through my
private email address (jameswilliams21@compaqnet.fr)

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