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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: James Sankoh <jimmysank1960@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:16:55 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From James.


Dear Mr.VICTIMNAME,

Thank you sir for your honest and sincere response to my mail. Sorry to hear about your situation too. But please sir I suggest that you should be more careful.I have been praying and expecting to hear from you since and I thank God that you have replied.
I don't know how to start explaining myself to you because of the experience you said you are having now. But Sir I want to let you know that my storry is true and a very sad one indeed as I birefly stated in my first mail, which I would tell you in details when you come down here. I beleive this will be the only way you will understand me and trust me and I also will trust you. All I am asking for now, is for you to come down here to Senegal so that we can together visit the finacial company for discussions and confirmation of what I am saying.

The company have asked me to provide my trustee so that they will identify him and discuss on how the money will be released to him on my behalf.

I want you to please believe and trust me and the only way you can do this is by coming down here.My prayers is that you will be able to make it down here,for the moment you are here and see things for yourself everything concerning trust is settled as I will also love and trust you even the more.
I will be waiting to hear from you.When I hear from you,then i will know if i can now inform the finance company about you as my trustee and then will also scan and send you my refugee camp attestation ID card so that you can identify me when you come.

I only hope and pray that you will understand me very well.Here also is my handset number in case you will like to call me; 00221 4177097.

I will be waiting to hear from you and until then have a nice day and bye for now.

James.





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