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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: ruthj jawad <ruthj1_jawad@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:51:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS CODE: ALL IS WELL/RUTHJ/213)


Dear Pastor Robert Ised,

Thanks for your reply, my dear pastor I think that you should know the condition and principle of business by now, I don’t think that the lawyer will accept the condition how can a full professional lawyer work for you without an upfront payment even in your country I don’t believe it can be done that way.

Look you are the one delaying everything concerned with this transaction, he told you on the mail you forwarded to me that the documents in the first place will cost you the sum of $10,000.00 plus and need to be obtain on your behalf before the funds claiming and delivering to you, then I thought you would have do something to acquired the documents first.

Try and contact him and send the required amount to him now so that the documents can be obtain for your to proceed further in making your claim, even if you don’t have the total amount for the documents now explain to him and plead with him with the amount you have at hand so that by next week the he will work for you in the court.

You must know that you will make upfront payment for the deal to be successful, thinks about it just like me donating such amount of money without asking you for anything? So do your best and settle things out.

Ruth Jawalus.



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