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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: Edwin Fong <edwin_ffong@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:02:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Reply


Dear Sir,

Thank you for your reply, now i would say that your interest to assist me was rather unspecific, you did not indicate your acceptance of my proposal. I got your email contact discreetly during my personal search in the internet for a sincere partner. now i am willing to give you 35% of the total sum(US$16.5m) while the balance 65% will be for me after we have deducted and payed back ourselves all the expenses that we incurred in the course of this transaction and I want to assure you that there will be no risk or whatsoever in the course of this transaction as we would complete the transaction within the ambit of both local and international law and as long as you follow my well worked modalities for completing this transaction, then you can be rest assured that this is already a success.

I sincerely appreciate your reply however I would like to be sure of your willingness, trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with me, I cannot afford to compromise these virtues. Considering the money involved, it is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this transaction, my trust is not given out lightly, I need to be convinced that you are a matured person with some integrity. of course there're expenses involve but both of us will bear the expenses involve in executing and conclude our project successfully. pls note that this transaction is a deal between us and it must remain that way.

What I expect from you is trust and commitment, I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance, if we follow up this transaction diligently it would be completed within 10 working days. I want to know if you are willing to follow up this business seriously before I can give you more details about this transaction, I shall be waiting your response and assurance, Pls re-confirmed your full names, address, direct telephone and fax numbers to enable me proceed with our project.

Sincerely,

Mr Edwin Fong



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