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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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Fraud email example:

From: Princess Fayad Bolkiah <onlinebusiness2000@helloworld.com>
Reply-To: "princessfayad11@gmail.com" <princessfayad11@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:53:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: MUTUAL INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP


Princess Fayad.w.Bolkiah,
Istana Nurul Iman
Bandar Seri Begawan BA1000.
Kingdom of Brunei Darussalam


Dearest one,

I am contacting you for an urgent assistance to mobilize a business
transaction and further to have explicit investment information about
your
country from you.

I am Princess Fayad W. Bolkiah, the wife of Prince Jefri Bolkiah,
former Finance Minister of Brunei and head Brunei investment
agency(BIA) the
state investment arm, in the fabulously rich tiny oil kingdom of
Brunei on the vast island of Borneo. I will save your time by not
amplifying
my extended royal family history, which has already been disseminated
by the international media during the family dispute that erupted
between my husband and his brother, His majesty the sultan of Brunei
Sheik
Muda Hassanal Bolkiah.

As you may know from the international media, the sultan had accused my
husband of financial mismanagement and impropriety of US$14.8 Billion
dollars. This was as a result of the Asian financial crisis that made
my husband's conglomerate, Amedeo Development Company and government
owned Brunei Investment Agency(BIA) to be declared bankrupt during his
tenure in office under massive losses. However my husband is in jail
now,
his bank accounts and private properties including a crude oil export
refinery have been confiscated by the sultanate.

Furthermore, during this unfortunate period i was advised to evacuate
my immediate family outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution
from the sultan and his security operatives, but luck ran against me
on
my attempt to escape.I am now kept under house arrest by the Sultan
and
i have no access to a phone but I have a Palm V hand-held computer
from which I am sending you this mail.

Before my Incarceration, I went ahead to dispatch the sum of Fifteen
Million United States Dollars US$15 Million and another Four
million,two
hundred thousand united states dollars USD4.2 respectively in cash
under special arrangement into the custody of Global Trust Finance UK
and
another asset management company in Athens Greece for safe keeping.
This
action was on the orders of my husband to me to enable us start a new
life.

Hence I seek your good assistance to invest these funds into profitable
investment in your country to facilitate future survival for my family
abroad.I have decided to offer 20% of these funds to you as
compensation for your strong cooperation. You can go through this BBC
site and
see what the government of Brunei did to my
family:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/670959.stm

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.brunei.jefri.html
and AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE

Please,I count on your absolute confidentiality, transparency and trust
while looking forward to your prompt reply towards a swift conclusion
of this business transaction.

Many Thanks & May Allah blessing remain with you,Amin.
I remain yours sincerely,

Princess Fayad .W. Bolkiah
For the family.




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