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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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  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: Suria Ahmad <suria1984ahmad@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <suria.ahmad202@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:50:04 -0700
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE



From Suria Ahmad,

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable andsincere business partner, i got your contact frominternet and i ask if you can be trusted not to breakan agreement? Still, it took me time to make up mymind to contact you and to offer you this proposal ofmine of which my whole life depends on.

My name is MISS SURIA AHMAD, the daughter of Mr. Behkikaban ahmad, of blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During thecurrent crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe fromthe supports of President Robert Mugabe to claim allthe white-owned farms to his party members and hisfollowers, he ordered all white farmers to surrenderall farms to his party members and his followers.
My father is One of the most successful multy farmersin our country and because he did not support Mugabe`sideas, Mugabes supporters invaded his farm and burnteverything in the farm, killing him and made away witha lot of items in my fathers farm.
Before his death, my father had deposited with FINANCE HOUSE IN ASIA the sum of (USD $6.5 MILLION).After the death of my father, I decided to move toRepublic of senegal where i re-located underpolitical asylum as a refugee to seek for foriegnpatner overseas that will assist me to move this moneyout of THE FINANCIAL HOUSE to your country as i havemade up my mind to invest and live in your country.
As an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate anyBank Account within senegal.I have agreed tooffer you 10% of the total sum for your assistance assoon as the money get`s into your account while 5%will be mapped out for any expences that may beincurred in the course of this transaction both localand international.

I want truth and honest to be our watch word in thistransaction and please treat this transaction withstrictly confidential for the successful out come ofit. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal phone and fax numbers and also yourprivate e-mail address for easy and urgent communication.

Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free andabsolutely confidential.
Thanks and Godbless you.
Sincerely Yours,SURIA AHMAD.
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