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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: mjohnson@email.it
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:04:50 +0100
Subject: Please Read Carefully and reply to my private email m.jonsn@yahoo.com


Compliments of the Season. I am contacting you via email for a purpose of
helping me to carry out a private transaction in my country. For security
reasons I can't disclose my full identity to you until I am sure of your
cooperation. One of the customers whom I worked as his accountofficer died
leaving no nextofkin.

Now there are two things I can do with regards to the dead man's money.
First I could formally notify the authorities that the man is dead and has
no next of kin. Another option is to arrange for someone else, a foreigner
to act as the next of kin of the late man so that he will claim the funds.
This option that I can take to help anybody and myself since the money came
from public-fund in his country. Actually he was a close ally to the late
brutal military president that looted the government treasury to his fill.
This is the reason why I have chosen to do it and want you to be my partner
to realize my aim. All you have to do is to act as the nextofkinn of the
dead man and we can claim it (19mUSDolars). You are also obliged to
help/advise on the proper and most convenient way of investing it in your
country.Please reply me on my private email: m.jonsn@yahoo.comMartins
Johnson

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