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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: "Prince.f.William" <rotr_princewilliam@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:33:24 +0100
Subject: Your Assistant is Needed Urgently

Dearest,

I am one of the officials in charge of refugees here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa.One of the refugees here (by name Donatus Gogo, 17 years) confided in me about a huge amount
of money( a total of twelve million US dollars US$12m) his late father deposited in a bank in this country.I came to find out that his father (Late Mr Christopher Gogo) was the financial
controller of Sierra Leone Gold and Diamond Corporation.According to him,his father disclosed this and instructed him to find a foreign business partner/trustee who will assist him to receive this money so that he can leave the country.

And he said he has approached the bank for the claim of themoney and they said that the money was shifted to europe for security purpose during the previous war that took place
here in Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire. I took time to verify all he told me and even contacted the bank as an official of this refugee camp where the boy is staying presently. The bank said that
the boy should forward to them the name and address, telephone and fax numbers of his foreign partner so that they will forward it to their off shore finance house in europe for
immediate release of the US$12M to his foreign business partner/trustee.

Please,I want you to stand as this boy's foreign business partner/trustee so that you can receive this money on his behalf ,and help him move forward.The death of his family(father,mother and two sisters) in a ghastly motor accident while he was in school,has greatly affected the boys life now.Here he is helpless and needs this assistance.Its really
a pity that such a boy with so much money in the bank will be undergoing the kind of life here in the refugee camp.

As soon as you receive the money, I will like to arrange for the boy to meet you in your country or you come here to take.I am optimistic you will help in this situation.My suggestion is that you help the boy invest the money either in your company or elsewhere in your country.I have made the boy to understand that any body am able to get for him will be
compensated very well with part of the US$12m and he agreed.As it is now,we need your full details including your account number and bank details.If you can send a scanned
copy of your identity,either international passport or diver's licence,it will give me more confidence in you.

Thanks and God bless you as I wait for your kind reply.I do hope you wont betray me and the boy in this as am giving you all the trust in the name of God.Please if you cannot assist,do let me know immediately so that i can try to get another person on behalf of the boy.

Thanks.
Prince.f.William

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