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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: "james dike" <jamesdike22@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:59:23 -1000
Subject: Greetings:

PLEASE REPLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL j_dike4@o2.pl

Greetings:

You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I got your contact
from the Chamber of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you
for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business.

My name is JAMES DIKE, I was a Personal Assistant to the
Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in February
and my aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and
honest person, who I can entrust the sum of US$12,800,000 (Twelve million,
eight
hundred thousand USDollars). Source of the money: I and the late president
secured this money in a
security firm in Accra Ghana, in my name before his death.

Now that he is late, I want to transfer the money out of Africa, for
investment in your country, I can not travel out of where I am on
asylum, hence I am asking for your assistance to have this money in your
care pending when I will secure
travel documents to come over to your country.If you accept this offer
we shall share the money as follows: for you, 25%, 75% for me. I have all
the title
documents to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have
assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and legitimate.

Please advise me on your position by this e-mail j_dike4@o2.pl
immedaitely, Please I await your prompt reply.

MR JAMES DIKE.

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