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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: "Mrs Angela Briggs" <advocatebriggs@gosympatico.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: advocate_briggs@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:57:35 -0800
Subject: Legal Business

Attn: Dear Sir/Madam

l greet you the name of the almighty God and compliments of the season.
l come to you with honest intention of creating an everlasting, social and mutual business relationship, l do not have bad intentions and l beleive we can do this together if we agree with one mind.
l am a solicitor and advocate representing Mr Mark mason, a Canadian who died in this country Nigeria, l want to solicit for your assistance in receiving this funds in an offshore payment centre, where l have already arranged for the courier company to move the funds considering the high level of investigation going on in banks because of fraudulent activities.
Their is nothing to fear about, because l have every arrangement intact, l contacted you because l know you are a man of God and cannot cheat me in any way, l do not even have time to ask you to go into a working agreement but if you say you can retreive the funds then l will give you more information and let you know what to do.
presently the funds is in the security vault of the courier company awaiting shipment to the destination l have chosen, so l am making it clear to you that if you want to assist me then you must be prepared to visit these countries, Paris, Hong Kong or Amsterdam, but l strongly suggest Paris, l will give you more information when l have heard from you. The amount involved is US$15.522 (Fifteen million five hundred and twenty two thousand United States dollars).

l wait for your prompt reply.

Mrs. Angela Briggs

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