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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.vincent George" <drvincentgeorge@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vincentgeorge0001@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:15:30 +0400
Subject: Get back to me.

Atten: President/CEO.
Tel:008821655582571.

Dear Sir,

I got your contact through the website when I was searching for a reliable and trust worthy foreignpartner whom I can liase nor work with. I am the financial adviser to the Late President of Congo Democratic Republic Mr.Laurent Kabilla.

My name is Dr.vincent George, before the president was assassinated on Tuesday, the 16th January 2003, there was a huge amount of money which he was to move out to Belgium up to the tone of Seven Million Six hundred and eighty thousand us dollars($7,680,000.00),

It was a result of his constant moving of the Country's funds outside the country that resulted to
his death. Some of the official who knew of this said amount planned his assassination. They did not want to overthrow the government, they only wanted him to die so that they can pick up the money. I can not say for now the level of involvement of his son who is now the interim president in the whole set up.

A day before his assassination, he instructed me to move to Yaounde Cameroun with the two boxes containing the funds to wait for him so that we could go to Belgium where he was supposed to lodge in the money into his account after the meeting, which was
slatedfor 17.01.03.

The day he was to leave for the meeting, he was assassinated with the intention that the money was in his possession. They never knew I had earlier left with the money in question. Soon as I heard of his assassination, and that he did not disclose the whereabouts of the money, I decided to change the position of both the money and myself to Lome, the capital of Republic of Togo in West Africa.

The money is now deposited with Security Company in Togo. Anybody who help me to move this money out of Africa will help me to invest it on Real Estate andany other business venture.

I humbly crave your indulgence to assist me in moving this money out of Africa for security reasons.Treat as urgent.

Yours faithfully,

Dr.vincent George

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