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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: "Dr Steve Kanayo" <steve_kanayo@tiscali.it> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 01:44:18 -0800
Subject: REPLY ASAP

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Steve Kanayo. I hail from Sao Tome and Principe, 41years, married with three children. I am the Director of Global Security & Finance Services Limited Sao Tome and Principe.

I have been working with this company for over fifteen years. Within this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of State and Government functionaries have been using Global Security & Finance Ltd to move sums of money USD, Pounds Sterling, French Francs (cash) to their foreign partners.

They bring in these consignments of cash and secretly declare the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds, precious stones, family treasures, and documents etc.Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni Abacha of Nigeria (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone, Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria, Felix Houphet Boigny of Cote d"Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan) and recently Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria etc. All these people have many consignments deposited with my office.

Their foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as much as eight years. Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases, the Certificate of Deposit is never available to anybody except the depositors or me since most of them are dead.I have through the instrumentality of Global
Security & Finance re-deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into the Vault Facility of a reputable Security Company in Europe.

Since the inception of the year 2000, our company's management has changed the procedure of claims of consignment, as soon as you are able to produce the secret information as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it will be released to you upon demand.

I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim consignment No. 1401, 1402 containing $47.5 Million. I will supply you with all the information and documents that will facilitate your easy claim of the consignment. Upon your positive reply of this letter, I will furnish you with further details and information regarding the modus operandi for the execution of the transaction. This business is risk free as I have taken necessary preventive measures. (The mode of sharing will be 60% for me 30% for you and 10% for incidental expenses), you can reach me by email and I will direct you on what to do. Upon your positive consideration and reply of this letter I shall furnish you with further details on how to realize this deal. Please expedite action.

If this is agreeable to you, contact me on this e-mail address from where i am sending you this proposal


Yours faithfully,

Steve Kanayo

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