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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: "Victor Dieudonne DAGA" <b93200960@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dagavictord@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:29:39 +0100
Subject: INQUIRIES


Hello,

Complement of the day to you.

I am Victor Dieudonne DAGA, 53 years old and happily married with two
children. I am contacting you for you to assist me in receiving a fund
amounting to the sum of twenty eight million US Dollar (28,000,000 USD) for
investment in your country. I have decided to invest outside the shores of
my country for the future of my two children ( a boy and a girl). This is
the reason why I anticipate for your assistance in the proposed investment
over there in your country.

Transfering the fund direct to your account from my country here will
require you coming to my country for us to draft and endorse an investment
agreement which would also further assure me of the security of the funds
and my proposed investment before the fund will be released to your account.
while here in my country, all the necessary procedures for the transfer of
the fund into your account will be observed and the fund will be transfered
into your account before you go back. All these procedures will not take us
more that three working days from the date of your arrival into my country.

Also, I want you to understand that I am a civil servant with only little
knowledge on business/investment and this is the major reason why I am
contacting you for an assistance.

I will also use this opportunity to assure you that i will not demand for
any money from you and will not want you to ask me for any money in this
project till the fund is transfered into your account. At this point, every
expenses made will be retrieved.

Also, I will require you to let me know what your ruminiration will be if
you assist me as I proposed and also I will require your cordial assistance
in the investment of the funds in your country. I intend to go into the real
estate and hotel investment depending on what your professional advice will
be on this matter. Also let me know the conditions with which you will work
with me in the proposed investment.

Furthermore, could you please let me know your experiences in investment and
the fields where you can implement your professional skills. Also send to me
your contact phone number as I would like to call you for more informations
as the case may be.

Waiting for your prompt response.

Thanks,

M. Victor Dieudonne DAGA.

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