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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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Jethro and Mother" <terrenced1985@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:51:03 +0100
Subject: 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 diamonds and crude oil business from his company in our country
Sierra Leone. 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 we 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 to us 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 in Ghana and he gave us all the
documents which the bank gave to my late father at the time my late father
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 this
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 my mother said that you will
also help us to buy a house in your country after the bank transfer our
money to you. 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 for your assistance.
Please we are willing to get your urgent reply so that we can send you all
the documents that was given to my late father at the time he deposited our
money in the bank and we will also send you my late father 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.

Best regards,

Jethro and Mother.

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