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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: "PAPE NDIAYE." <pape_nd0@techemail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:00:49 +0000
Subject: ENQUIRIES

Hello dear,

How are you today?It really gives me the pleasure to write you this pathetic and emotional heart bleeding mail which i know will come to you as a surprise even though we hardly know each other personally.

BUT I MUST CONFESS THAT I GOT YOUR CONTACT IN MY DESPERATE SEARCH IN THE NET TO FIND AN HONEST AND GOD FEARING PERSON IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE,RELIGION OR CULTURE WHO WILL HELP ME OUT OF MY PREDICAMENTE WITHOUT BIAS OR PREJUDICE.

Well to go straight to the point,I am PAPE NDIAYE,20 years old from the REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL and the only surviving child of late ARCH.COLLIBAY NDIAYE who was untill his untimely death the director-general of housing departments of the ministry of works and housing here in the REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL.

You see,my father,my mother and my two younger sisters all died in a ghastly car accident which collided with a petrol tanker which ignited a fire immediately the accident occured and they all burnt to ashes.I am sure you may have heard about it because the news was all over the place,infact across the entire continent as many media houses carried the news.

As a matter of fact,this great tragedy happened on their way to visit me on our visiting day in my boarding school where i was about completing my final year in the high school before i was thrown out of school last year due to my inability to pay my school fees and to buy some important text books since my father died along side with my entire family.since then life has been very difficult and cumbersome for me to the extend it got to a point that i wanted to comit suicide.

But just four days ago as God may have it,a SECURITIES AND FINANCE HOUSE called our house asking for my late father to ask his foreign partner to come forward for the claim of the over-due "CONSIGNMENT"(funds)which he my late father deposited with them(THE SECURITIES AND FINANCE HOUSE)as "FAMILY TREASURES".

But in the actual sense my late father has no foreign partner because i could remember him telling me then one day in our living room as his only son that he deposited 7 MILLION EUROS(SEVEN MILLION EUROS) with a security and finance house as "FAMILY TREASURES"due to the fact that here in the REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL all top government functionaries are prohibited by law to own and operate a foreign account.That was why my late father deposited the funds in that way as a CONSIGNMENT and as if he had a foreign partner but in the actual sense he had no foreign partner.It was just to avoid the deposited funds being detected and confiscated.

Now I am saddled with the problems of getting a sincere,honest,trustworthy and God fearing person who will earnestly help me by standing as my late father's partner and claim these CONSIGNMENT(funds)of 7 MILLION EUROS(SEVEN MILLION EUROS) as the sole consignee which was deposited as "FAMILY TREASURES" and will not cheat me or sit on the funds after claiming it but rather will invest it properly for me with his expertise in his country thereafter i will come over to meet you to have a new life.

Please should you have a soft and kind heart to help me claim these funds on my behalf,do not hesitate to get back to me AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE with this my e-mail address pape_nd0@techemail.com so that i can forward your particulars to the SECURITIES AND FINANCE COMPNAY as my late fathers foreign partner and then give you their own contact so that you can call to ask them what to do for the CONSIGNMENT(funds)of 7 MILLION EUROS to be released to you as my late fathers foreign partner.

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU COME FORWARD TO HELP ME.

Yours sincerely,

PAPE NDIAYE.

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