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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)
Reply-To: annabellealexander1984@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:45:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: HELLO FROM MISS ANNABELLE ALEXANDER

Hello.

I know that this letter must come to you as a big surprise but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I write you this proposal in good fate, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.

Let me start by first introducing my humble self to you though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day,

My name is miss Annabelle Alexander Frank, I am late Mr Alexander Frank daughter,a Native of Kono District in the Northerh province of Sierra Leone,My Father was the Controller and chairman,Association of Sierra Leone Gold Mining co-operation (A.S.L.G.M.C.)Freetown. I inherited a total of US
$17.500.000, Which my late father deposited in a SECURITY COMPANY.

I am the next of Kin as the only daugther, but i'm a complete very confused of what to do that is why I want you to stand as my father business partner in claiming the money from the security and finance company here.

I am ready to part with 15% of the total sum to you if only you assist me to claim the money and assist me also in investing the money in any lucrative business.

I will give you more detail and forward all vital information as soon as I hear from you.

God bless you as i hope to hear from soon.

Yours Faithfully.

Annabelle Alaxander Frank.



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