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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: "estallahaugusto@cantv.net" <estallahaugusto@cantv.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:10:01 -0430
Subject: Why I wrote you this e-mail

Dear Sir,
It is with full heart of sorrow and eyes of tears I write you this mail to seek for your Godly assistance. My name is Estallah Kappa Augusto,I am 22years old and my brother Theodore is 19 years. We are the Children of late Chief.Kappa Augusto Edward, a well known Cocoa/Coffee dealer here in my country(Cote d'Ivoire) Our mother died when we were little kids,and on the 24th July 2009 our father attended the annual general meeting of all the Export Cocoa/Coffee dealer Companies here in my country and unfortunately he was poisoned by his business rivals and later died in a hospital. (May his soul rest in peace)

Before the death of our father in one of the private hospitals here in Abidjan,the capital city of my country,he told me as his beloved Daughter that he deposited the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (us$10,500,000.00) in one of the banks here. My father told me for security and safety of the money,that he deposited the money to the beneficiary of a foreign partner. My father told me that he did not mentioned nor write any particular name as his foreign partner/beneficiary of the money when he deposited it,and for this reason I am contacting you to please help me transfer this money into your bank account because I and my brother has decided to come over to your country for continuation of our education and also for a profitable investments of the money under your care in your country.

I have gone to the bank where my father deposited the money and the manager of the bank confirmed the existence of the money in their bank but told me that the money can only be transferred to my late father's foreign partner's bank account,hence I will like you to act as my late father's foreign partner for easy and immediate transfer of the money to your bank account.

Finally, I and my brother has decided to offer you 20% of the total money if you assist us transfer it into your bank account.

Thanks and remain blessed as we wait/hoped for your positive response.
Yours faithfully,
Estallah and Theodore Kappa.

 

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