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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: "musa idris" <dmusa@idris-musa.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:58:01 +0000
Subject: FOR YOUR ASSISTANT.

Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from London. Presently i'm in London
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring
those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary,his name is mr collins john on his E-mail address:
collinsfordjohn1@yahoo.ca, his phone number is +2348058037469 ask him to
send you the total $1,800.000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all
the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated
your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my
secretary COLLINS and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the suffer ness at that time.You can call me on my London line
+448458906358. in the moment, i am very busy here because of the investment
projects which me and the new partner are having at hand.So,you have to
contact my secretary as soon as possible and ask him to send you the check
without any delay as I have instructed him to do when you ask for it.

Thanks and my best regards,

ALHAJI IDRIS MUSA ABACHA



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