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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: kinlug@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 02:19:18 +0200
Subject: [TRUSTEE]

From: Lugard Sese
Bujumbura, Refugee Camp
Accra,Ghana

I need your help, I am Lugard Sese the son of a late
minister during the first reign of President TEJAN
KABAH in Sierra Leone, I came to know you in the
course of my search for a reliable and God fearing
partner and I decide to contact you because I believe
you are a reputable man and I felt you can help us
over this confidential matter.

I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to
handle this business. I have one-truck box which
contains $25million U.S DOLLARS. We are ready to give
you 25% from the total money which is $25 million U.S
DOLLARS because we are in a tight situation, the
consignment is right now in Canada, my father business
partner who was to receive these consignment
containing the money could not be located at the long
run.

We have been trying to reach him, but there is no
response and we dont really know what happen to him
so we need your help to receive this consignment since
you are in USA. Please be honest to us we are counting
on you and all charges has be paid by my father
business partner.

The director of the shipping company just inform us
yesterday that if we can not provide our father
business partner within this period of time, that the
consignment will be return back to GHANA, so we need
you to stand as my family trustee to receive the
consignment . If you are willing to help us receive
this consignment, all you just have to do is to
contact the director of the shipping company here in
Ghana so he they can give you instruction to their
agent holding the consignment in Canada.

If not for the director who has been helping us, the
consignment would have been returned back to Africa.
Please reply my mail so that I can give you the
contact of the director to discuss with them on the
release of this consignment to you and as I told you
all charges have been paid, all you just have to do
for us is to receive this consignment. And that
reminds me the shipping company does not know the
content of the boxes, because it was deposited as a
precious item.


THANKS,

Lugard Sese.



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