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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: JUNIOR WILLIAM <william_jnr9@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:41:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONTACT ME URGENTLY.


ATTN: SIR/MA.

I am MR. GEORGE JRN. WILLIAM the first and the only son of Brigadier
GABRIEL WILLIAM former chief security officer to the former president
Joseph Saidu Momoh of Sierra Leone. Unfortunately, my father has been accused
and arrested by the Sierra Leone government for acclaimed illegal possession
ammunition in his residence where all his travelling documents and other ressential document has been seized by the present government which the government see it as hindrance to a peaceful resolution in the country, contrary to the case which they
claimed he committed for he may be sentenced to life imprisonment.

During my father's tenure as a former chief security officer in Sierra Leone, he
secretly deposited huge some of money in a private security vault here in Accra
Ghana, in custody of my name although he declared the content asgold and
personaleffects for security reasons. Right now i am in ghana for the claim of the
money, for the main time i am staying in a hotel.The reason why i am contacting you,
Is that i want you to stand as my late fathers foreign partner, as whom the consignment
will be released to. I have with me all the vital/relevant document which my late father
gave to me for the of the consignment before he was imprisoned, that is going to
back you up, It is risk free . Please if you are intersted to assist me, kindly contact me immediately to enable me give you more details/ your own%. Thanks.

Best Regard's.
George William.




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