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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • johnsonsmith2021@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHNSON SMITH" <johnson_smith014@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonsmith2021@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:57:10 +0000
Subject: FROM JOHNSON SMITH




INVESTMENT
You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I have decided to
contact you for confidential, Urgent and rewarding joint business.
My name is MR Johnson Smith , I was a Personal Assistant to the Late
Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in February 2001 and my
aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and honest
person, who I can entrust the sum of US$18,800,000(Eighteen million), eight
hundred thousand US Dollars). Source of the money: I and the late president
secured this money in a security firm in Ghana, in my name before his death.
Now that he is late, I want to transfer the money out of Africa, for
investment in your country, I can not travel out of Nigeria where I am on
asylum, hence I am asking for your assistance to have this money in your
care pending when I will secure travel documents to come over to your
country.
If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for you,
20%, 80% for me. I have all the title documents to the fund which I can
transfer to you to enable you have assess to it. Be assured that is
risk-free and legitimate. Please advise me on your position by my
e-mail;johnsonsmith2021@yahoo.co.uk
Immediately, indicating your phone and fax numbers.
Your quick response will be highly appreciated.
Regards.
MR Johnson Smith.

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