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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: "edula komane" <edula6666@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: edula888@myway.com
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:03:49 +0000
Subject: Hi

Dear Sir,

You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I have decided to
contact you for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business. My name
is KOMANE EDULA, I was a Personal Assistant to the Late Congo President,
LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in February 2001 and my aim of writing
to you is because of the need for a trusted and honest person, who I can
entrust the sum of US$25,000,000 TWENTY FIVE million, US Dollars).

Source of the money: The late president I and secured this money in a
Security Firm, in my name before his death. Now that he is late, I want to
transfer the money out, for investment in your country, I can not travel out
where I am, hence I am asking for your assistance to have this money in your
care pending when I will secure travel documents to come over to your
country.

If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for you, 30%,
70% for me. I have all the title documents to the fund which I can transfer
to you to enable you have assess to it. Be assured that is free from all
risk and legitimate.

Once you indicate your interest in this proposal an executor of my WILL,
will help us in facilitating the change of ownership process in a WILL that
will empower you to receive the deposit on my behalf legitimately.

Please advise me on your position by e-mail immedaitely, indicating your
phone and fax numbers. Please I await your prompt reply

KOMANE EDULA

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