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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: "Samuel Kabila" <samuelkabila@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:29:07 +0000
Subject: TRUSTED FRIEND

FROM:SAMUEL KABILA
EMAIL:samuelkabi@netscape.net

Dear Friend,
I got your contact in my search for an honest, godly and trust worthy
foreign partner to assist me transact a rather very lucrative but
confidential business. First, I must introduce myself to you. I am SAMUEL
Kabila, a former aide de camp and cousin to the late President of DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO(DRC) (formerly known as Zaire),LAURENT KABILA.Due to the
war raging in my country then the late President, Laurent Kabila,was using
me through diplomatic means to send money out of the Republic because he had
feared that he might be overthrown or killed at any time. He wanted to
provide for his family.

On this particular occasion the late President gave me the sum of
US$20MILLION (TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to carry abroad through
Netherlands.This money was packed into a SAFE-BOX and brought into
Netherlands by DIPLOMATIC means. It is here in Netherlands that the news of
the death of the President reached me, just exactly as he feared. May his
soul rest in peace! After receiving the news of the President's death, i
was faced with deciding on what to do with the US$20M (Twenty Million United
States Dollars) in my possession.I then deposited the SAFE-BOX containing
this money in a PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY here in Netherlands as FAMILY
VALUABLES, without disclosing real content of it to them.
My objective now is to invest this money in a foreign country like yours. I
will also appreciate entering into a profitable joint venture with you after
the safe transfer of the money.

I am by this mail asking you to assist me transfer this money to your
personal/corporate account. For your assistance,I shall compensate you with
20% of the total sum. I have also set aside 5% of the total sum for expenses
you and i may incur in course of this transaction.The remaining 75% will be
for my family,which you will help us invest. Kindly, contact me by this
email address.I wil furnish you with the details of the transaction as
soon as you assure me of your honesty, trust and determination to help me.

Note that all necessary arrangements for the success of this transaction
have been concluded by me here and the transaction will take us a maximum of
10 [ten] working days to accomplish.

Thanks,
Samuel Kabila.

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