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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: "MRS KATE" <mrs_katemasul02@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:30:07 +0000
Subject: DIPLOMATIC ASSISTANCE


From:Mrs.Kate Masul
Diplomatic courier unit
47-49 Meadow Vale, Sligo
Ireland.

I am a Diplomat attache to the Diplomatic courier unit of the International
Diplomatic Corps here in Meadow Vale ,Sligo in Ireland, we handle's all
clearance and delivery of all diplomatics luggages and parcel's in and out
of this country
International missions, Fellow Diplomats and Embassies of the world have
used our services to satisfaction. A benefactor has mandated me to get
someone that can assist her and her family in retrieving her package
containing some amount of money from a PRIVATE VAULT COMPANY in Spain. The
benefactor and her children have been confined only to their country home
and all their calls and movements are monitored, as a result, it’s
absolutely impossible for them to do anything as regards retrieving the
money. Their only means of communication is via internet and you are being
contacted because your assistance is needed in claiming the funds on their
behalf.
In order to clear any misgivings or doubts that you may have, it is
imperative that I give you an insight of who the benefactor is. I do not
know how conversant you are with events and the fragile political situation
in Liberia one of western africa war torn countries, but it has made
consistent headlines on CNN,
BBC and several news bulletins around the world.
The benefactor is Mrs.Suzana Isaac Nuhan Vaye,
wife of the late Deputy Minister of Works in Liberia (Isaac Nuhan Vaye) who
was murdered by Taylor during the regime of President Charles Taylor on the
false accusation and trumped up charges of trying to overthrow Charles
Taylor. The late Isaac Nuhan Vaye raised a substantial amount of money from
Diamond Sales over a period of six years and these funds were carefully
moved out and deposited in a private vault in spain for safekeeping before
his
assassination by Charles Taylor.
The amount accrued from the Diamond sales over this period of six years is
USD38.6M (Thirty Eight, Six Hundred Million U.S.Dollars) and these funds are
fully free of any liens, or encumbrances and are clean, clear and has no
criminal origin.
The funds have nothing to do with any form of illegality and all
documentations needed to prove the source of the funds were submitted when
the funds were being deposited and these documents would prove the source of
the funds and authenticate the fact that the funds are clean and has no
links whatsoever with either drugs or terrorism.
For your assistance in this transaction, the benefactor and her Children
have agreed to give you 25% of the total amount of money which is equivalent
to US$9.65 Million (Nine Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars) your role in this transaction involves among other's,
retrieving
the funds on their behalf from the vault, and investing it in lucrative
business of your choice,all the information needed to
claim the funds would be sent to you as soon as you indicate your interest
in assisting them.
You can verify the authenticity of this letter on one of the worlds' top
Newspapers below:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm
I await your response.
Mrs.Kate Masul

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