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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: Eyadema Burger <eyaburger@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:01:50 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Burger


Good day and may this mail reach you in good health.

I am Eyadema Burger from Republic of Togo, I am contacting you for something
very serious that needed urgent attention.To give you brief history about
my life, I am the son of late Engineer Wemgbe Eyadema who died 3 years
back killed by gun men due to politics since then I have been working
with my late father's lawyer trying to recover my father's property.Just
last week as I was going through my late father's documents I found a
deposit slip of some funds my father deposited in Bank of Ghana escrow
account with no benefiary and the funds was deposited for a contract
project.After going through the document I went to meet the Treasury
Department of Bank of Ghana and I was able to talk with the gentle man
in charge and he confirm to me that the funds are real and are
currently under the bank's escrow account and he said that the only way I can
claim the funds is to present my late father's certificate of death and
a foreign beneficiary who will stand as the beneficiary and receive
the funds in his or her account in abroad then the transaction can be
done.
My main reason of contacting you is to share trust with me and stand as
the beneficary and then the funds will be transferred into your account
after which I will compersate you and also I will need your
asisstance in investing the funds in your country.

I will like to hear from you if you can asisst me then I will give you
all the details to proceed.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Your truly,
Eyadema Burger


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