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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: Kenneth Williams <kgw2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <williams.kids4real@yahoo.it>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:16:19 +0200
Subject: From Kenneth and Glory Williams.



From Kenneth and Glory Williams.Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. Dear. How are you today? hope you are fine we are contacting you on a good confidence that you will be able to help us and be of good behaviour to us, May God bless you. Our name is Kenneth and Glory Williams, the children of Mr.Stephen Williams. We are from Sierra Leone. Our father was a cocoa and gold marchents he died on a motor accident in one of his buisness trips to Cote D'ivoire, and our mother died out of shock when she heard the news of our fathers death. But befor his death he made a deposit of fund in Cote D'ivoire,we get to no this when we were going through his private file, and we have gone to the bank and make verification of this and the answer was positive. The amount is US$21million. Though the bank Chief told us that this fund can only be withdrawn after it's transfer to a foreign account, and this is why we are contacting you to stand for us as our late father's buisness associate and a friend of the family too. The requirements is to send to us your full contacts and phone and fax number, and also your account details were this fund will be transferd to, this is for us to introduce you to the bank Chief for the fund transfer to your accounts. Note: that this is very urgent as the our relations are bent in collecting all our fathar's wealth, and this very fund is all we have left for now, Please hurry for our rescue and the Good God will bless you.We hope to read from you soonest. God bless you and best regards.Kenneth and Glory williams.
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