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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Li" <joshualij2000@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:18:54 +0800
Subject: Request for investment assistance


Dear Friend,



With due respect to your person and with much sincerity of purpose I make
this contact
with you and I believe that you can be of great assistance to me.


My name is Mr. Joshua Li,41 years old man from the Peoples Republic of
China.Presently
i am a civil servant working with the ministry of Housing in Guangdong
province. I am
contacting you to seek your assistance and possibly partnership for
investment purposes
in your country. It has always been my mind to plan for the future of my
family in a
country like yours where there is a free society and property rights. As you
are aware
am from a communist country where the same cannot be said.
Please should you sincerely find yourself capable to guide and work with me
in sincerity
and open mind to actualize this personal invesment that i want to establish
in your
location for the future of my family, kindly get back to me as soon as
possible to enable
us discuss further about this noble cause which i believe will be of mutual
benefit to
both of us as i look forward to building a long term relationship between
us.


I will be waiting to hear from you as early as possible and thank you very
much for your
anticipated cooperation.


Sincerely
Mr. Joshua Li

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