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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: "Julius Margai" <jumarg3@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: julimarg333@excite.com
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:40:38 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend

Good day,

First of all may i use this opportunity to identify my self to you,i am Julius
Margai, the son of late Dr Maxwell Okumbi Margai,from Nkono District North
of Sierra leone MY late father Dr Maxwell Okumbi Margai,before his death
he hold a very sensitive position in PRESIDENT TEJAN KABBAHS government in
SIERRA LEONE.

My father has a bullet shot by the rebels west side boys on his way to LUISA
a border town between sierra leone and liberia,He was later conveyed to abidjan
LA- COTEDIOVRE for a medical treatmet wherein he later died, in the hospital
bed my father reveal and confide in me about one metallic box ( consignment)deposit
that he made with a security company in accra ghana . containing ($21,000,000.00)
TWENTY ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS.

Nobody in the security company knows the real content of the metall box
becuase my father wisely declared them as art work and family tresures from
the national museum of monumet. since the death of my father the rebel has
held us hostage untill the recent intervention of the UNITED NATION SECRECTARY
GENERAL MR KOFI ANNAN whom secure a peace agrrement with the rebels that
led to our release All the refuggee move to the GHANA concentrated refuggee
camp,

I am presently in the refuggee camp now seeking for your help and assistance
for you to come to my aid I proprosed that you stand as my proxy person that
is my late fathers foriegn partner,so as to get the box that contain the
fund out of the security company, transfer it to you it into your foreign
account oversea.

This transaction is now only known by you,myself and my old sick mother Ms
Elizabeth Margai,whom is now in with me in the camp waiting for the time
i get this fund out of the security company, the secrecy and confidentiality
should be mantained for the successfull transfer of this fund.

I will be handing over to you the original certificate of deposit which
the finance house gaved to my late father, these fund was deposited with
a secrect code not bearing any name or any person that means it will be more
easy for you to retrive.

I withhold the secrect code for security reasons as you show interest, the
secrect code and the certificates of deposit will be given to you upon your
arrival and held a meeting with me and my mother we can now proceed to the
security company to retrive the consignment for investment in your country
or any country of your choice.

Best Regards,

Julius Margai.

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