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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: "Mrs.Sandrine Mpondo" <mpondo_sandrine@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: sandrine_mpondo@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:14:50 +0100
Subject: DEAR CHOSEN PARTNER

DEAR CHOSEN PARTNER

Dear freind,

This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not
yet met. The message could be strange but real if you pay some attention
to it. I could have notified you about it at least for the sake of your integrity.
Please accept my sincere apologies in bringing this message of goodwill to
you, I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pains. As
i am writting you, i am in a sick bed because i am having a heart attack.

I am a Mrs. Sandrine Mpondo, 52 year old business woman from Sierra Loene
in west Africa.I elate to inform you that I inherited a total sum of $8 million
Us dollars (Eight million us dollars) from my late husband chief KOSSI M.MPONDO,
a gold and diamond dealer who was murdered by the former Liberian president
Mr Charles Taylor over the dispute in their diamond and gold deal.

This money which is concealled in a computerised Trunk box is deposited in
a safe deposit company in Abroad.

Your assistance is now sought in retrieving the trunk box from the deposit
company and transfer this money to your country for investment into any
lucrative business of your choice.By this mail, you are requested to visit
me here for familiarisation and to
enable us arrange on how to get this trunk box out from the deposit company
and transfer this money into your account in your country after which I will
go back with you.But if you cannot come down here, the director of the deposit
company can arrange and bring the trunk box containing the money to you in
your country under their diplomatic coverage system just the same way it
was brought from my country to where it is right now.You will be required
to send me a copy of your international passport to know who am dealing
with. For rendering this service, you will be highly compensated, a situation
that will be discussed later.

I want you to take this transaction very serious because it will benefit
you.I will later tell you why I reposed this trust and confidence in you,
a person I have not met before. we must act fast because it cost me $50 daily
as demurage to the deposit company keeping this trunk box and the earlier
we remove it from there the better for us. This is not scam please.I know
about scam because my late husband was a victim before his death.

Looking forward to your reply through this my private
email: sandrine_mpondo@mail.ru.

Sincerely yours,
chief Mrs.Sandrine Mpondo


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