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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
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Fraud email example:

From: Jet Jethro <jethhro19858@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jethhro1985@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:25:23 +1200
Subject: please we do need your assistance please.



hello,
God bless you and your family for taking your time to read our letter to you. We are contacting you to assist us to transfer ten million euro €10,000.000.00, we inherited from my late father who made a lot money from the sale of crude oil and diamonds business from his company in our country zimbabwe. after the death of my late father i and my mother have been maltreated and humiliated by the family members of my late father who claims that by tradition i can not inherit my late fathers wealth, because of this, they tried to kill me and my mother so we ran to a neighboring village and there my late father lawyer came and gave us an envelope and in it was some vital documents of my late father that before death of my late father he deposited this money in a bank here in ghana and he gave us all the documents which the bank gave to him at the time he deposited the money in the bank so i and my mother came to ghana immediately. unfortunately to this family members of my late father, they are not aware that before the death of my late father he deposited money in the bank so we want to transfer the money to you so that we will leave ghana and meet you in your country and you will help us invest the money for us since we do not have any business ideal and it is a pity that my mother can not speak english properly and buy us a house in your country. please i do want you to know that my mother said that if you do know that you are willing to assist us that after the bank transfer our money to you we will give you 25% of our total money. please we are willing to get your urgent reply so that we can send you all the documents that were given to my late father at the time he deposited our money in the bank and his death certificate so that you can understand more better all what we have said in our letter to you please. thanks and God bless you as we wait for your urgent reply for more details.

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