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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: "George " <lifekam2002@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: lifekam2002@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:25:05 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DEPTH OF OUR HERATS GEORGE AND JOY

From:George Kamara
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire


Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you. We got your contact
from a computerize data following my effort
searching for a trustworthy person to assist us.


I am George Kamara, the only son of late Mr and Mrs Alfred
Kamara, i am here with my only sister Joy.Our father was
a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic
capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to
death by his business associates on one of their
outing to discuss on a business deal.

When our mother died on the 21st October 1984,our
father took me and my junior sister special because we
are motherless.Before the death of our father on 30th
March 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan.

He secretly called us on his bedside and told us
that he has a sum of $7,500.000 (Seven million
five hunred thousand united states dollar)deposited in
a bank here on his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this
wealth and some huge amount of money his business
associates supposed to balance him from the deal they
had that he was poisoned by his business associates,
that we should seek for a God fearing foreign partner
in a country of our choice who can assist us in
claiming this fund from the bank for us for investment
purposes and use it for investment purpose, (such as
real estate management).

But because of the present political problems in this
country Cote d'ivoire we want to transfer the money
out of the country as we don't know what might happen
next.

We are honourably seeking your assistance in the
following way.

( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our late father
by claiming this fund from the bank for further
transfer and investment to your designated bank
account abroad.

Moreover , we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum
as compensation for effort in put after the successful
transfer of this fund to your designated account in
your country overseas.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God Bless.

George & Joy

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