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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: "paul pedro" <paulped_02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: paulped77@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:19:16 -0500
Subject: GREETINGS

GREETINGS FROM Mr. PAUL PEDRO.

REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!

My name is Mr. paul Pedro, I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee
in charge of contracts Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am
presently
an accountant with the Nigeria Mining Corporation.

I am contacting you for an Urgent business proposal (please my apologies for
reaching you through this manner). The purpose of this letter to you is to
simply ask your hand in
partnership towards the transfer of funds to the tune of US$41,500M
equivalent(Forty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars),
into a foreign account that you will provide.

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the
funds will be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100%
hitch-free, timely and totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you don't
have entertain any fear as I am quite conversant with all laws
governing money transfer or money laundering of any sort.

We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful
and its proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the
successful completion of it all. If you follow my instruction accordingly
and promptly, this transaction will be completed in at the
most 10-14 banking days from the receipt of what I will require of you.

At this time I can not devulge further information regarding this proposal
until there exists an understanding and trust between us for security
reasons. But after receiving this mail and have perused through it and you
are interested, please do respond back via email:
paulped77@yahoo.com. If this proposal meet your intrest, we have decided to
give you a negotiable percentage from the entire sum, hoping that it will be
satisfactory. Please send along your response the following:

-Confidential/Private Tel and Fax number.
-Contact name and address.

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.

Respectfully,

Mr. PAUL PEDRO

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