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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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• 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.
  • john_akpanigo26@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: john akpanigo <john_akpanigo26@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ATTENTION: I REALLY NEED YOUR CO-OPERATION


ATTENTION: I REALLY NEED YOUR CO-OPERATION

Dear Sir,
This is a personal email directed to you and
that i think it must meet you in good health & happiness,I assure you that i am contacting you in good faith. I am Currently working in Anglogold Ashanti Ghana Limited as an assistant surface mining
operations manager.But attach to my profession i have my own private
small scale Gold dust mining.I am seeking your interest for partnership
only if you will be trustworthy person to buy or market and sell my Gold
and Gold dust in abroad as a foreign partner, if you are able to sell my Gold i send to you then you will be entitled to 35% of the profit of sale, I need a foreign partner like you because the Gold business here is currently slow in marketing.I think this is going to be a mutual benefit between you and i.I have all the necessary
lincese and certificate with me in Ghana please make sure you contact me
for more information thru my private email: john_akpanigo26@yahoo.com or thru my private phone number: +233-24-2976130.


I am looking forward to your good partnership and hope to hear from
you soon.
Yours faithfuly,
Mr.john akpanigo.

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