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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: "Luduvique" <kouame2000@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kouamel2000@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:39:00 +0200
Subject: Waitin to hear from you

Luduvique Kouame.
Dakar - Senegal

Dear Sir,

I have got your contact in the cause of my serious search for a reliable foreign partner .However,I am Luduvique Kouame from Cote D'Ivoire.My father Ado Kouame was one the leaders of the Guillaume Soro rebel group in Cote D'Ivoire in West African.

Presently,I am in Dakar-Senegal where My late father Deposited the sum of Seven Million United States Dollars(US$7m) in a Finance and Security company .The money was appropriated by my late father before his death through Diamond sales when the rebel group conquered one of the Diamond region,by then my father was the Director of KONO Gold and Diamond Site Corp.

It was a situation of war so my father died, I consider it my chance and then move immediately to Dakar-Senegal and since then.I have been looking for a nice business to invest this fund into. My aim of contacting you is to assist me in two ways :

(1)To help and transfer the money to your country
(2)And to help me get a profitable business for importation or help me to investment
any where in oversea all is base on your professional advise.

Note that a substantial portion of these money would be compensated to you for all your assistance.As soon as i hear positive answer from you i will make arrangement on how to move this fund with your name whereby you will receive as my father business partner.

Finally, keep this with you confidentiality as you can understand my present condition in Dakar-Senegal because i am into hiding as you can understand.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Sincerely Yours ,

Luduvique .

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