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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: "pascal kouadio" <pascal_kouadio@gawab.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:04:53 GMT
Subject: I AM AN OPHAN I NEED YOUR HELP PLAESE

I AM AN OPHAN I NEED YOUR HELP PLAESE  
FROM PASCAL KOUADIO
COTE D'IVOIRE WEST AFRICA.
PHONE 0022506029361
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS(pas_cokouadio02@yahoo.fr)
 
DEAR ONE.
 
I AM Pascal Kouadio.FROM SIERRA-LEONE. I AM AN OPHAN BEING THAT I LOST MY PARENTS A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. MY FATHER WAS A SERVING DEALERDIRECTOR OF COCOA AND GOLD EXPORTING BOARD UNTILL HIS DEATH.I WAS LEFT WITH NO BODY TO CALL MUMMY OR DADDY.
 
EXCEPT MY STEP MOTHER THAT NEVER WANTED TO SEE ME ALIFE. DESPITE THE FACT THAT MY FATHER MARRY HER
BECAUSE OF THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER AFTER ALL SAID AND DONE SHE KILLED MY FATHER BECAUSE OF WHAT HE LEFT BEHIND.

SO THAT SHE AND HER OWN FAMILY WILL COLLECT ALL THE INVESTMENT THAT MY LATE FATHER LEFT.  MAY THE SOULS OF MY PARENTS REST IN PEACE. BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER HE WAS A GREAT FARMER IN SIERRA-LEONE POPULARLY KNOWN AS HINDIANA (THE GREAT ONE) BEFORE HE GIVE UP TO GHOST. HE ASK OF ME TO COME AND HE TOLD ME THE SECRET ABOUT HIS MONEY DEPOSITED IN ONE BANK WHAT (25 MILLION DOLLARS) THAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR A FORIEGN PARTNER WHO IS GOOD AND HONEST PERSON TO HELP ME AND COLLECT THE MONEY IN THE BANK. AND THAT HE WILL NOT LET ONLY MY STEP MOTHER TO ENJOY ALL HIS SUFFERING YEARS BACK.

AND HE GAVE ME THE DEPOSITED DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE MONEY. BUT SINCE THIS UNTIMELY SECNARIO MY STEP MOTHER NEVER WANT ME TO BE ALIVE. SIMPLE BECAUSE OF WHAT MY LATE FATHER LEFT BEHIND. SO WITH THE HELP OF A FAMILY FRIEND I WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL TO IVORY COAST THAT IS WHERE I AM NOW WITH THE DEPOSITED DOCUMENTS.

AND I HAVE MEET WITH THE BANK MANAGER AND HE ASK ME TO COME WITH A FORIEGN BANK ACCOUNT WERE THE MONEY WILL BE TRANSFER INTO.

SO PLEASE I NEED YOU ASSISTANCE BY HELPING ME PROVED A BANK ACCOUNT AND SEE THAT THIS MONEY IS TRANSFER INTO YOUR ONW BANK ACCOUNT. SO THAT I CAN COME AND MEET YOU FOR AN INVESTMENT OF THE MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY ALSO I WILL LIKE YOU TO STAND AS A FORIEGN PARTNER AND WILL NOT BETRAY ME AFTER THE MONEY IS INTO YOUR HAND OR ACCOUNT.
 
 PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP.FOR YOUR ASISSTANCE I WILL GIVE YOU 35% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT. PLEASE

REPLY ME WITH THID ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS ( pas_cokouadio02@yahoo.fr)
THANKS AND REMAIN BLESS.
pascal kouadio.

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