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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: "FROM Turkin Okorro" <turkin_e_okorro1@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: turkin_e_okorro2@walla.com
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:45:58 +0200
Subject: FAMILY REQUEST FOR HELP

Dear Sir,

My name is turkin e. okorro, the elder son of Mr. Okorro akwa .of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I got your address from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg , . During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe.

from the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party mem bers and his followers. My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe's ideas,

Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm. Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security Company in Dakar Senegal, the sum of US$10.5 Million (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)

with my name,and made every documents with my name both the certificate of depositry. Then after the death of my father, we decided to move to the Republic of Senegal where he had deposited the money in the Security Company as valuables. So I decided to contact you to assist me to transfer this money out of Senegal because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate any bank account within Senegal.

We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction. so all i what you to do is to furnish me with

your full personal phone ...............................................and fax

numbers .................................House Addres.................................... for easy communication. You can contact me on this personal email addres turkin_e_okorro@walla.com

this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless. Best Regards.

Turkin okorro.

FOR THE FAMILY

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