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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: "sandra" <nguluh_sandra@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nguluh_sandra@hotrmail.com
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:39:48 +0400
Subject: baby girl sandra.

Trust for you.

I am miss Sandra efrata nguluh the only girl out of two child of mr DONALDSON nguluh who suddenly pass away because of president MUGABE wickedness towards famers in Zimbabwe but i will disclose the truth about every thing to you just as you reply back and once you confirm your genuinly interest of assisting us in it . i promise you i will remain faithful to you . is true the fund we are talking about is $8,200'000 dollars but it was deposited as a preciuse stone just to avoid any eye brow from any authurity to be honest with you i have all the nessacery document my father use deposited it in security company some where in oversea . a part from my mother none of my family member knows about it for now .please my friend kindly keep your mouth shot until every thing is done but remenber is risk free deal i promise you that and as soon as every thing is done i will be in your country to investe some of it after you have collected your 20% of it which i have dicided to !
give you after every thing .may God bless you .
best regard nguluh Sandra'' sincerely ''
please mail to me at efrataguru@hotmail.com <http://us.f505.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=efrataguru@hotmail.com> or you can send your private number so that i can call you for more details thanks .

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