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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: "REGINA LINA" <regina_lina11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: regina_lina11@freeghana.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:42:35 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY


My name is miss REGINA LINA the daughter of Mr. James Lina in angola late who died during the recent war in angola. Before my father died , he instructed and confinded in me as his about business .As a matter of fact my father gave me some document
bearing the name of a security company in Accra the capital of Ghana, which he told was the place he deposited huge amount of money when he had an information about the
war. This money which is in the tone of $6.7MILLON. is now lying at the vault of this security company.l am with the document my father gave to me, I flew to Accra, Ghana where I comfrimed the document. The security company show me two seal trunk box with the inscription FAMILY ACHIEVE" with my name being used as next of kin in the deposit form, how ever my father had earlier informed me that he cleverly packed the US$6.7MILLION in

two sealed trunk boxes and he told the security company that it contain works of art. this he did in order to conceal the money from being detected I need a foreign partner with the image of God in him who will equally not side track me because I want to transfer this money US$5.7million into his account in abroad,and invest in a profitable bussiness like
lettings and estate agency. On completion of this transaction,i wish to offer 20% of the total sum for your directive. there is no risk involved both now and future. God Bless.
Your immediate response is highly needed.
Best regards
Miss regina lina

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