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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. Joy Afolabi ( Pl's Assist)" <jafofile@tiscali.at>
Reply-To: jflabi@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:25:17 +0100
Subject: Please Assist

Dear Sir/Madam

At this perceived confusion or stress may I have with due respect. Sorry
receiving this letter since we have not known ourselves or met before. Despite
that, I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of
it.

By way of self-introduction, I am Mrs. Joy Afolabi, the wife of late Dr.
Sunday Afolabi Little did I know that my Late husband used his position
in the present government to influence the Nigerian government to award
SAGEM S.A COMPANY (FRANCE) the contract of handing the Nigerian national
identification card scheme in Nigeria of, which he and his colleagues were
then offered the sum of $214 million dollars by SAGEM as bribes.

Since my husband was a carefree person, he was poisoned by his colleagues
so that he will not get his share of the deal and later died out of shock
during his treatment abroad in Germany when he Finally realized that his
case was as a result of poison, but thank God, my husband was smart enough
to have kept some wealth without letting anybody knows about it.


However, since after my husband death, we have suffered maltreatment and
untold hardship in the hands of my late husband's family, simply because
I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my late husband. By tradition,
all that my late husband had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family.

And myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger brother, which I
vehemently refused. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband
to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular seized by
them. I wanted to escape to the United States of America [USA} with my children
on exile, but again they conspired and stole my International passport and
other traveling document to further rustrate me. My three daughters and
I are trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.

Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code from a Security Company
in EUROPE, that my late husband deposited U.S $15.5 Million cash in one
Security company in Europe. It has therefore become very necessary and urgent
to contact someone a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these
funds overseas in a reliable bank Account presumably an empty Bank Account,
if available and to help invest it on our behalf as well, while we find
a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.

I have had several communication with the Director of the security company
in Europe, who has express willingness to help me on meeting the company's
demands.

This is why I have contacted you to help save my children and I By receiving
these funds on our behalf. But you need to give me sufficient assurance
that you will not divert the fund if you help me.

My children and I have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum. This is
all my children and I have got to live on.

Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint
me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your phone number
and any other available means of reaching you as fast as possible.

Kindly reach me if you express desire to help.

Thank in advance for confidentiality and I look forward to hearing from
you.

Mrs. Joy Afolabi.



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