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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:02:20 +0400 (MUT)
Subject: Mr.Felix kwame



I wish to introduce myself as Mr.Felix kwame, a mandate and representative
of the Aziz Company and family resident in the Eastern Region of Ghana. As
you may know, our region remains the richest in terms of annual turnover
in the mining industry in Ghana . Relatively every house whole has a
mining concession or the other, either inherited from our late parents or
just discovered as a result of geological analysis conducted in our
communities. It may also interest you to know that we currently have in
our dear country Ghana , a Gold mining concession that is said not to be
in exhaustible even in the next 100 years! Based on this statistics, we
in our family has decided to request for genuine foreign partnership with
very truthful and honest investors who will come down to buy our produce
(Gold Dust) and in return, pay for the produce part in cash and the
balance In the supply of machineries to enable us boost our mining
strength and capacity. We are willing and ready to go into a long term
purchase contract with you if you proof to be reliable and will respect
the exclusive sale of the produce to you or your company only.If this
proposal interest you, Please kindly reply us immediately and we will be
glad to give you further details as to how much quantity we have for offer
at the moment and other relevant procedures regarding the smooth
completion of the transaction. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards, Mr. Felix kwame.

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