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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: "MR PETER KOFI" <peter_kofi20@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr_peterkofi@lime.pobox.com
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:29:31 +0000
Subject: I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON

Dear Sir/ madam,
This mail may come to you as a suprise,please i apologise for inconvinencing you.

To introduce my self,my name is Mr Peter Kofi,i am from ghana am married with three kids,i am the secretary of Mr Andreas Peterman,from the republic of Germany,who died on the saturday 22nd october 2005,in a ill fated Bellview Airlines flight (number B3210).Which crashed at Lisa village,near Ifo Ogun state-Nigeria.The accident happen on a saturday,you would had gotten the full stories on the news.

Mr Peterman Andreas is 36 years of age and He is survived by a wife and two children,meanwhile the deceased Mr Andreas Peterman,before his death was working to Economic Communities Of West African States(ECOWAS),he is the manager of Ecowas Statistics Development Project (ECOSTAT) European Commission in Abuja.

Please,why i contacted you is for you to stand as the next of kin to Mr Andreas Peterman, because right in his office i discovered something that will be of benefit for you and for me.When i was going through his private office file,i saw a letter and i open it,the letter contain a project He is about to set up in Ghana and the project is to start from January 2006,and He has already deposited the fund for the project in a Security Company in Accra,Ghana and the amount for the project is $40 million united states dollars.
The security company does not know about the project,to be sincere with you.I know about the project and the very day He went to deposit the fund,we were together,Mr Andreas Peterman,and my very self.The fund was deposited as a family belonging treasures.

Please i beg you to join hands me so that we can get the deposited treasures from the security company and 10% will be used for any expensis that will incure,and you get 25% of the total fundsome part of the fund and myself shall take the rest part of the fund.
If agreed send to me,your full contact and names for the change of ownership and also the certificate of deposit.

I want to hear from you shortly.

YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,
MR PETER KOFI.

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