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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: "Engr.Andrea Mark" <info_engrandreamark09@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:10:31 +0100
Subject: Urgent Attention/Confidential

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Friend,

My name is Engr.Andrea Mark a Brother to the late President wife Mrs. Stella
Obasanjo who just died on the 23rd October 2005. I am writing to seek for
your trust and urgent assistance over this fund USD45.5M (Fourty Five
Million and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which she handed over to me
secretly (My sister Mrs.Stella Obasanjo) just a month before her death.

After I received this money from her,It was properly packed in a two trunk
boxes and tagged as personal effect. I quickly board a flight and deposit
these consignments in a Security Company in abroad which I shall disclose to
you upon receipt of mail indicating your intertest to assist me in claiming
the fund as you know that it is confidential. I did not know that she will
be leaving this very world so soon before a news come to us that she is
died. After this news, I decide to contact you for an assistant to claim
these consignments on my behalf as the beneficiary because i cannot leave
this country now that my sister is dead to avoid people suspecting me and
knowing my intention of traveling.

I offered you 25% of the total fund for your kind assistance and also 10%
will be for all the expenses that you will incurr during the transaction
while 65% is forme which you shallalso assist me and invest into any
profitable business there in your country. Please if you are interested in
helping me claiming this fund,feel free to drop your direct telephone/
Mobile numbers, Your full name and address so that i can contact you as soon
as possible for further corresponsdence.

Please keep this business confidential between you and I as you know my
situation. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement which will protect you from any
breach of the law. For more confidential,get back to me throgh my private
email address engr_andreamark101@yahoo.com

Best Regards,
Engr.Andrea Mark.

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