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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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "SAMUEL KONE (SIR)" <samkone@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: samkone65@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:28 +0700
Subject: Subject to our negotiation only

Please this is a deal and I can stake what I have for it, please I did not need a loaud mouth person, because what is involved is much. I am a consultant to a governmental organisation in one of the Asian country and lately we stumble into a contract with oil firm in Yemen, and it is on the known that the contract have been executed and all parties fully paid for.
But because of parties involved, the original contracted sum was high hacked up to favour most of the committe that over see the execution of the said contracted.and it is base on the said over invoiced amount that I am directed to source for a reasonable person for us to commit the said amount into his private or personal investment.
The amount for the over invoiced is United state dollars (USD 4,185:000) four million, one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars only.please if you are showing interest over this, We want you to know that everything about this have been perfected to conclusion and is free from any form of scrutiny by any agent of what so ever.
Finally you are to send to us your private email and telephone number and we also intend to inform you that we like calling so that every step will fast over this.And we can discuss the mode of sharing when you call as what we intend to do is purely on personal and friendly basis. And we encourage you to file every of your expenditure you may incurred during this transaction, as all will be deducted first before sharing whatever percenatge we agreed .
Thanks for the
SAMUEL KONE (SIR)

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