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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: "karimai joe" <karijoesp@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: karijoesp@myway.com
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:22:22 +0000
Subject: hello my good friend how are you today

Good day

I am sorry to disturb you with this mail that you might call an
unsolicited one but please find some time to just go tru it.I am karimi
Joseph an auditor in one of the banks in Ghana here married and with two
lovely kids. As you know every one would every one is working to get
something to keep going until he/she gets an opportunity which one will
quickly grasp to and opptuinities like that are the ones that lifts one from
the level of What i call "struggling to survive" to the level of the elites.
One of such opportunities that has has found its
way to me which makes me to get across to you for some help.

In the curse of doing our quarterly audits i got across this
amount of money that has been without beneficiary which i would love to
transfer abroad into an account. In other to make it 100% risk free i have
carefully placed the money into a Escrow Call Account and i am just
seeking for a foreign account to get the money transferred to the account
might be newly opened or might have been existing for some time.The amount
is small but can change our lifes for the best forever it is $1.98million
pls get back at me so that we can discuss on your own percentage latter but
i would appreciate it a great deal if you can quickly get back at me so that
we can commence on how we can make the transfer.

Joseph
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