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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: "LORYTA WILLIAMS." <lorywilliam@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lorywillam01@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:17:49 +0200
Subject: MISS LORYTA WILLIAMS

Dear Sir,
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your
country and investing my funds.
Briefly, I am a Sierra Leone National, and the daughter of late Dr SIMON WILLIAMS .

Until his death, my father was the General overseer
of the Diamond Mine in Kanema Sierraleone.
On December 6/ 2000 the military forces loyal to the
Government of Ahmed TIJAN KABBAH invaded the diamond
mine and assassinated my father, mistaking him for
his brother MIKE WILLIAMS who is the deputy to the
leader of the revolutionary United Front (RUF ) FODAY
SANKOH.

When the news reached my mother,she hurriedly gathered some
valuables in our family villa and escaped for our dear
life in the company of my only sister.

Among the valuables was a file that contained details
of a deposit my father made in a finance hous in
Europe. We do not want to disclose the amount inolved and the
contact details of the finance house for security reasons as the money
was made from the sale of Gold and diamonds during his
time as the General overseer.

Now we are nolonger in sierraleone but in senegal and we verified the
transaction, we need your assistance to move this
money into a protected personal account into your
country as we cannot invest here due to its nearness
to our country and the war still going on there. We
ask you to scout for a viable and lucrative business,
so that we can invest wisely.
This fortune we have revealed to you should remain
confidential as it is only you who we have told about it.
Waiting to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Blessed you .
Sincerely,
Miss Loryta Williams.

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