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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024072203 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Tongalo Jr." <johntongalojr04@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <john_tongalojr@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:24:05 +0100
Subject: Dear Goodone,



Dear Goodone, l am writing this mail to you with the fervent belief that the spirit of the earthly creator will touch your mind into rescuing me from my predicament and solicitation. Anyway, l am an orphan residing and schooling at[Oxbridge College - London - United Kingdom].It might interest you to know that my late father used to be the traditional head of a clan of Bukavu Simba in the Democratic republic of Congo -DRC ] who died in an auto crash together with my mum in May 2005.Due to his support for the present president [ Joseph Kabila Jnr.] he was given a mining right which he agreed torun with a foreigner with man whose surname is of the same with yours.
In the course their trying to establish a mining factory my father raised the sum of us$9.5millionwhich he deposited with a security firm outside DRC,WITH THE FOREIGN TECHNICAL PARTNER as the beneficiary.Now that he is dead and the factory yet to take off, l decided to seek your assistance to recover the deposited fund from the security firm since l have notified them and they have requested me to provide the beneficiary. Going by the documents at my disposal , which l gotfrom my fathers safe, l decided to ask for your help since l have the documents to back the claim . You and l can discuss the sharing percentage if your response to my mail could be positive.Do let me have your complete house or mailing address devoid of p.o.box as well as your direct phone number while you can speak with me at my UK phone number;+44-702-4072203.
Regards,
John Tongalo Jr.
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