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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: joycamara225@terra.com.mx
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:07:26 +0200
Subject: from ms joy

I got your contact address on my desperate search for a reliable person/

for partnership investments overseas. By introduction, I am MISS JOY
CAMARA a Sierra Leonean and DAUGTHER of late DR CAMARA BUNDU.
Before thedeath of my father he disclosed to me about the total sum of$15

million US dollars he deposited under a suspense account with a bank in

Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

This fund represent the huge Sales of Gold and Diamond he diverted while

in office as the director general for Gold and Diamond Mining Co-Opretionin

in Sierra Leone .For security reason according to my late father, he made
an agreement with the bank that his partner/ beneficiary will come forward
to submit his banking details for onward transfer of the fund to his account.

DR CAMARA BUNDU,my late father advice me in case if he died that I
shouldlook for a foreigner who will stand as the beneficiary ofthe fund
so that the
fund will be transfer to his/her account or partnership investment. Right

now, I am in Abidjan Ivory Coast, home number 45 Lordkings Street
Abdjain, I request your kind assistance in ransferring this fund to a
trustworthy account.Meanwhile, I am writing to know if you can standasthe

beneficiary of the fund and to also provide me yourbanking details so that
I
will submit it to the bank for transfer of the fund for partnership investment

you will introduce in your country.

Note that after the transfer is made to your account,you will then with

draw some money and send to us in order for me and my sister to secure
the necessary documents to enable us come over to meet you for the investment.
On confirmation of your interest to assist us, the certificate of deposit
with
the lodgement receipt of the fund which was issued to my late father by

the bank on the day he deposited the fund will be forward to you for your
confirmation. 15% of the total sum will be offered to you for your assistance,
while 5% will be set
aside for any expenses that might arise during the transfer.
Indicate your interest as soon as you received thismail, and note that this

transaction
MISS JOY CAMARA BUNDU


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