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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 zuma" <frank_zuma1@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:00:18 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONDS

Dear Attn:,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since telephone
communication can not be suitable enough to communicate to you at first.

Being the only son of my father, late Johnson Zuma from LIBERIA, My father
was limited liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in LIBERIA before his
untimely death.

After his business trip to GHANA ,to negotiate on a cocoa and Gold business
he wanted to invest in Ghana. A Week after he came back from GHANA, he was
attacked with my mother by unknown assassins, which my mother died instantly
but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful
afternoon. I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had
lost my mother.

But before he DIED, it was as if he knew he was going to die. my father,
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to me that he deposited the
sum of $21,800,000,00 US Dollars (TWENTEEN ONE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS) IN GHANA .

That the money was ment for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to
establish in Ghana.

Though, according to my father he deposited the money in security company
and handed to me all the relevant documents of the deposited Box and
instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy partner for a life
time investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the security company here in Ghana.

The name of the security company is Gold Links And Finance Security Company
in GHANA .

Therefore, I am soliciting for your assistance to help me get this Box out
from the security company.

If possible you can come over here in Ghana and transfer the fund to your
account so that we can invest it in any meaningful/lucrative business in
your country because this is my only hope and source of livelihood. I am
anxiously waiting to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of
this transaction.

All informations needed is your personal telephone / fax number , your home
address and your personal photo .

Please kindly contact me through the above email address immediately for
more discussion .

Thanks for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely

Franklin Zuma.

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