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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: "GRACE KABBAH" <kabbah@lbb.zzn.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrs_gracek@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:28:36 +0200
Subject: FROM GRACE

My Dearest one,

Good Day,
It's a pleasure meeting you today, how is everything with you, hope all
is well with you. I am Mrs.Grace kabbah from Sierra Leone.
I lost my husband during the rebel attack, my husband was a serving
director of the Agro- exporting board until his untimely death .

He was assassinated by the rebels during the political uprising, before
his death he had a foreign account here in Côte d'Ivoire where he made
a deposit of US$16.5 Sixteen Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars
which he deposited for the purchase of cocoa processing machine and
development of another factory before his untimely death.

Being that this part of the world experiences political crises time
without number, there is no guarantee of lives and property. I cannot
invest this money here any longer, despite it has been my late husband's
industrial plans.

I want you to do me a favour to recieve this funds to a safe account in
your country or any safer place as the beneficiary . I have plans to
invest this money in continuation with the investment vision of my late
husband, but not in this place again rather in your country.
I have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production.

This is my reason for contacting you.
Please if you are willing to assist me , indicate your interest asap .

Thanks and best regards .

Yours truely,

Mrs.Grace kabbah.

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