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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • leedalfrank2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Leedal Frank" <leedalfrank2006@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:31:39 +0100
Subject: WE ARE DEPENDING ON YOU.........

Attention My Friend,
How are you and your family,hope all is well?I am Miss Leedal Frank from Africa Demorcratic Republic of Congo,it is with ulmost pleasure and urgence that i contact you with this transaction which required your sincere and honest cooperation to materaclise,I amd my family are seeking for your assistance to be our foreign partner who is to stand and sign the claims of our consignment which my late father Chief Dr Eddy Frank who was the owner of Diamond Mining Co-operation in my country deposited with a private firm company under the condition/Bond that during the claims we his inheritance have to present his foreign partner who will sign the release of the consignment to his country and invest it in a profitable business but unfurturnately his foreign partner who is suppose to sign the release of this consignment past away some years back and ever since we dont know what to do or who to seek his assistance, before the death of my late father he handl!
e over all the legal documentation backing up this consignment to my mom who right now is very ill and we dont even have enough money to treat her while we have access that could save her life for us,the consignment in question worth $55.5 million USD,you who is to stand and assist us sign the release of this consignment is entitle to %20 of the total amount of this consignment and after the claims of the consignment you are to look for a good business that is profitable and invest this consignment for us.
Your assistance is of great benefit to you and us and please ulmost confident is required of you as well toward this transaction until our arriver in your country for our investment plans.
If you are sincerely ready to assist us please contact me through this email:
leedalfrank2006@yahoo.com and after your cooperation we will link you to our lawyer who right holding the legal documents and will tell you what to do next for the materaclizetion of this transaction .

I await your sincere correspondence.
Thanks
Miss Leedal Frank.

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