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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: "USMAN SHERIF" <usmansherif@btcitogo.com>
Reply-To: usmansherif@walla.com
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:28:04 +0000
Subject: thanks for yr assistance

My Dear,

I'm happy to inform you about our success in getting the fund transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I’m in
Paraguay for investment projects with
my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget you’re past
efforts and attempts to assist us in transferring those funds despite that
it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary, his name is MR CHIJIOKE and his email address is
(chiji05@ureach.com) TEL: 234-8032266218 ask him to send you the total
$800.000.00,(EIGHT HUNDERED THOUSAND DOLLARS) draft which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist us in this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and
get in touched with my secretary MR CHIJIOKE and instruct him where to send
the money to you. Kindly confirm to him your full name and address to send
it to.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy
here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I are
having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the
secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch
with MR CHIJIOKE and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

Note that other people may be contacting you in respect of the same fund, as
it is still in Central
Bank vetting computer.

With best regards
USMAN

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