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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: smithleo@supereva.it
Date: 24 Jun 2005 20:28:55 -0000
Subject: From Leonard Smith


From Leonard Smith

Abidjan -Cote d`Ivoire

West Africa.

Tel: 00-225 08206232





CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT ATTANTION

Dear One,



I know that this letter may or may not come to you as Surprise. But after much considerations I decide to write to you. I am Leonard Smith, a Sierra Leonean.I am the Son of Dr Gerald Smith and a former student of the federal university of Freetown sierraLeone. my Father Dr Gerald Smith was the former finance minister of sierra Leone. In the cause of the war which is presently going on in my country. He was accused by Tejan Kabba's President of sierra Leone of embezzlement and supporting the rebel leader Forday Sankoh's group for fighting against his government.Two weeks later he was assassinated with three of our family members including my mother by unknownassassins on their way home on the 22nd of Febuary 2004.



When going through the documents I understand that he made a deposited in one of the prime bank in Abidjan the sum of US$7.5M ( seven million five hundred united state dollars) I am awaiting anxiously to hear from you as your involvement and modalities of this transaction will be carefully discussed in our next correspondence.

I am honourably seeking your assistancein the following ways:



(1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to

(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am 21 years old.

(3) To make arrangement for us to come over to your

country to further our education and to secure a resident permit in your country.

Yours Faithfully one.



LEONARD SMITH









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