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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: Zama Guie <zama2003200420052006@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Your email


Hello Dad,
It was un furtunate my mother felt on a seriouse illness on the wednesday 26 april night after we came back from the evening bible studies service, this is why you could not hear from us since then but for now she is gething better but still on addmition in senegal general hospital where she is been taking treatments since then,
I came out from the hospital today to contact you back and inform you the present conditions of things and saw your mail. i am very happy now that you accept to help us for the tranfer of US$ 10.5million dollars(Ten million five hundred thousand us dollars only) deposite to your account we have contacted you believing you are honest and trustworthy person and repose all our trust on you and this is why we have no fear for contacting you to help us to receive the money in your account for investment, even thou we have not known before,I and my mother has decided in compensating you 20%of the total amount for your assistance .Please do take your time to go through the mail and get back to us, so
that I will simply introduce you to the Bank where the fund are being
kept now for onward transfer.
Dad according to the doctor today he promise that by this this week saturday being
(next tommorrow ) my mother will be bail out from the hospital as soon as i pay the hospital bill of 160,000 cfa wish is about US$ 300 dollers please dad we need your godly help for this hospital bill to aneble my mother be free so we can join hand to forword you the bank information and introduce you to the Bank where the fund are being kept now for onward transfer.
Dad please help us to pay the hospital bill with this information to the the hospital:
Name: Dr.amadow sow.
Address ; rue 23/23 medina dakar senegal
State : dakar
Country : senegal
please dad help me and my mother to pay the hospital bill (300 dollers) to the doctor tommorow and all expencise will be chaked and be ballance to you as soon as we join you after the transfer.
please call us immidiatly you send the money to the doctor.with the doctors mobile number:00221-4261716 tell him you want to speak with mrs guie or her son zama and he will call us immidiatly.
thanks and waiting to hear from you soon.
yours faithfuly,
zama guie.


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