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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: Harrison Timothy <harri_son_fr22@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:01:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Expecting your immediate response.


Greetings,

I am well confident of your capability of executing this business for the mutual benefit of our both families, believing that you will not expose or betray the trust and confident I am about to repose on you. I am contacting you with the greatest delight and personal respect.

I am Prince Harrison Timothy, the first son of CHIEF K.S. Timothy Personal Assistant to the former minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of Sierra-Leone who was recently murdered by the Forces Loyal to Corporal Foday Sankoh, due to his support to the incumbent elected President Tejan Kabbah to remain in the office as reported on the cable Network News (CNN) and by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Few days before my father was assassinated,he confided in me and ordered me to go to his underground safe and moved out immediately with the deposit agreements and cash receipt he made with a Security Company in Abidjan where he deposited one trunk box which contains cash sum of US$25,000,000 (Twenty Five million United States Dollars).

I successfully smuggled out of the country to Abidjan, C?te d?Ivoire with the help of some rebels loyal to My father and have gone to the Security Company with the deposit Documents to confirm the deposit myself. Unknown to the Security company my father declared the contents of the trunk box as HOSPITAL EQUIPMENTS belonging to his foreign partner, that the keys are with him in order to prevent them from knowing the real content.

I am now seeking for your direct assistance to front you as the owner of the consignment and lift the fund out of this country to your base for onward profitable investment which necessitated my contacting you. We are to open a non residential Bank Account here in Abidjan in your name through which the fund will be remitting from to your Bank Account abroad and your reward for this noble assistance is under negotiable.

Further detail will be made known to you on confirmation of your interest to assist me towards this project You will also comfirm to me that know third party should hear about this transaction.

Expecting your immediate response.

Yours sincerely.

Prince Harrison Timothy.





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