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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: madamalfarouk12@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:11:49 +0000
Subject: Greetings From Madam Mariam Alfarouk.

Mrs Mariam Alfarouk.
Abidjan-Côte d'Ivoire.

My Dear,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I can not
be able to see you face to face at first,i am the wife of late Dr Alhaji
Alfarouk from REPUBLIC OF Sierra-leone My husband was limited liability
Cocoa and Gold merchant in Sirria-lone before his untimely death.After his
business trip to Abidjan-Côte d'Ivoire,to nagociate on a cocoa and gold
business he wanted to invest in Abidjan-Côte d?Ivoire. A week after he came
back from Abidjan, he was poison by his business associate. He my husband,(MAY
HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE)

Before his Death he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $10,000,000,00
(MILLION US DOLLARS) in a security company here in Abidjan-Côte d'Ivoire.The
money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish in
Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire though,according to my husband he deposited the money
in a trunk box but declared it to the security company as vital family belongings.

He single handed me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed
me to contact his reliable and trust worthy friend Mr Hatem Kamil Abdul
Fatah,who was his business partner for my life time investment abroad.

Mr Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, who was the deputy governor of Baghdad in Iraq
and also business man was my late husband business partner before he died
may his soul rest in perfact peace amen,now my reason of coming down to
Abidjan-Côte d?Ivoire is to locate the security company where my late husband
made the deposit which i have successed in locating where the security company
is.Presently my reason of contacting you is for you to stand as my late
husband
business partner since his partner Mr Hatem Kamil is also dead in motor
acident,pls go throuht this site;

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6979

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/ /1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me
out of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that
we can discuss the modalities of this transaction

Thanks and Alah be with you.

My regards.

Mrs Mariam & Son,Ibrahim



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