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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: Francis Okuma <okumagba_17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrokumagbab@praize.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:23:50 +0000
Subject: Your Anticipation is Highly Needed



I am Mr. Francis Okumagba, funds Manager of African Development Bank (ACB} , the Africa largest fund management capital investment funds. Nevertheless, as African Development Bank Fund Manager, I handle all our investors direct capital funds and secretly extract 0.3% excess maximum return capital profit (EMRCP) per annum on of the investors Magellan capital fund. As am expert, I have made over Seven Million Three Hundred and Fifty Four Thousands United States Dollars {$7,354,00.00}from the investors EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust that i will stand as an investor to receive the funds as an annual investment proceeds from Manager of African Development Bank , the Africa largest fund Magellan capital funds. All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance . Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the can be claimed in any of our affiliated offices without any hitch. Should incase you are interested you are advised to forward below informations.Private Fax No Private Phone No
Best Regards, Mr. Francis Okumagba.
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