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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "jensica gogo" <jen@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jensica_gogo@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:50:33 +0000
Subject: Hi Dear



Good morning sir
How are you today.i know you will be suprise to receive my message today.i came across your e mail here in the internet and decided to express my self with my future plan with you.i am Jensica Gogo from a country called SIERRALEONE. I am residing in senegal I lost my both parents in a car accident when my parents were going to Senegal to visit my mothers family because my late mother is from Senegal.Since then i had no rest because my fathers brothers and other uncles want to collect the my late father deposited in a bank in europe.
Now i am so confused on who to trust that will help me out of this present situtation.I am so fustrated and confused in my situtation because i will not want the bank in europe to convert it to thier money. I do not know who to trust that is why i wanted to seek your consent to know if you will assist me in investment there in your country as soon as the fund is retrieved,since i will like to invest in a landed property and other investment that will be profitable as soon as i retrieve the fund, which my late father deposited with my name as the only next of kin who has the power for retrieve.i am 24YRS OLD.
Please,this will help me take care of my younger ones since i have stopped work now.And my only sister had about three kids before she died together with my parents in a car crash .those kids are now in my custody.please i will be waiting seriously to read from you.I hope to be in a joint venture with you, since i cannot be able to run the investment alone as a woman and as a new fresher in investment.May God be with you.
thanks
Jensica

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