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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: "Hamza Ahmed" <hamza_ahmed2006@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:47:14 +0400
Subject: From Hamza Ahmed Urgent Please

Goodday,
I know this letter will come to you as a surprise; but this letter is
borne outof my desire to establish a mutual business relationship with
you,please keep it confidential.

I am Mr Hamza Ahmed the son of Dr Ibrahim Ahmed the former deputy
finance minister under the ousted civilian government in Sierra Leone.
My father was killed and mutilated by the military junta led by Major
Paul Koroma after over throwing the elected government of President
Tejan Kabba.

Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events
disturbances in Sierra leone, but the,pressure of war drove me and my
mother
out of Sierra Leone into exile in South Africa.Where we have been
living under political asylum for three years.
Sadly, my mother died of cancer three [3] months ago and was buried
here in South Africa. Prior to her death, she handed over to me a
certificate meant for a secret deposit which my father made in a
security/finance company.

This deposit is worth [US $ 9.000.000.00] Nine Million United States
Dollars only. And this money is in cash.
My father made this deposit in the heat of the conflict then in my
country, with the hope to convert it[money] to his personal use at the
end
of the war, unfortunately he was killed when the conflict intensified
as result of his opposition to the rebel forces.

After my mother's funeral, I contacted the security company to confirm
this deposit and establish ownership as well made an arrangement for
this deposit to be moved. this sum of U.S$9,000,000.00 (nine million
dollars) is currently being deposited in a security vault
I am seekingfor your honest and sincere participation in the
retrievement and
reinvestment of this money.I cannot do it alone due to my complete
ignorance of the business
world, more over I am only 27 years old I will give you a negotiable
percentage of the principal sum in deposit if you assist me to retrieve
and reinvest this money in any profitable area of business in your
country.

Please, I need your assistance urgently, because the more this
consignment is still with the company, the more the demurrage
accumulates.Contact me through the same email address.

God Bless You,

Thanks yours,

Hamza Ahmed.jnr.

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