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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: "Angela Mark" <angela270mark@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:25 +0100
Subject: My Dearest one.


Hello Dear,
I got your email contacts here in asylum camp where i currently reside for
refuge on my going through a magazine and decided to contact you with faith
for this help. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and
confidence to contact you. It is my pleasure to contact you sir though I
have not met with you before pleading you for this help, but i want you to
consider it as the will of God for my knowing who you are.

I am Ms. Angela Nwamaka Mark 24 years old, the only daughter of the former
minister for Defence and Interior in Sierra Leone Engr. Samuels Mark. There
is this ($8,500,000.00 DOLLARS) which my late father kept in a bank before
he was assassinated by unknown persons from the rebels after the new
political crisis in my country in
1994.

Sir I waited for so long before I decided to recover the money to start up
my life in your country or anywhere save enough outside Africa for security
of my life. I want you to help me claim and retrive the money from the bank
with the documents I have here with me and transfer it into your personal
account in your country for my future life purposes and on profitable
investment. Please if you can be of assistance to me, I will be pleased for
you tell me what you will be your offer out of the total money so I can use
the rest to start up my life. Please Sir, I want you to know that it will
require money according to the bank on my last discussion with the manager,
this is the reason I cried unto you for Godly help to get this money out of
the bank.

I await your soonest response through here if you can consider my plight and
help me out.

Your's Daughter,
Ms. Angela Mark.

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