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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: "Franklin K Green" <frcg2001@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:50:10 +0000
Subject: Investment







Attention sir


My name is Franklin Green.I hail from Sirrie Leone in
west Africa

I came across your contact in my search for a genuine
and trustworthy business man.

I want you to assite me to claim and transfer the sum
of $7.5musd which i inherited from my late father who
was shot dead by rebels during the war in my country
to sign a contract deal for supply of crude oil.
Unfortunately,the rebels shot him and that was the
tragedy that struck my family.

It happened that he deposited a trunk box containg
$7.5musd in a security company here in Ghana with
instruction that i am the next of kin. This he
declared to the security company as family treasure.
He also instructed that 15% should be donated for
charity .

This information was strictly made known to me
and my mother who is now with me in a camp in Ghana
since the government refused us entrace in the main
city

He adviced also that we should contact a trusted
foreign partner to assite us transfer the funds out of
Ghana for investment and manage the charity fund for
distribution for allmotherless babies anywhere in the
world.

Sir with due respect,your commission and share for
your assitance will be discussed as soon as i hear
from you. I have interest to invest in Agriculture and
real property/estate business.

I thank you for making time to go through this
proposal and promise you a mutually beneficial
business relationship. Please call me on
233-243-955700
Franklin Green

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