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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: "LINDA E MOUNIR" <lindaemounir1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lindaemounir2@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:43:35 +0000
Subject: FROM: MRS LINDA ELIZABETH MOUNIR

FROM: MRS LINDA ELIZABETH MOUNIR

Dear Sir/Madam,

With a sincere heart, I write you this proposal in utmost confidentiality,
trust and wish to draw your attention to my need for assistance.

I am wife of late DR NZAMBE MOUNIR, who died after three days
Major-Operation at General hospital Nkembo Libreville Gabon. He was a
Computer scientist with the Banque des Etats de l'Afrique centrale Gabon
branch.

Sequel to my zeal towards the security of my life and my husband’s fund in
Foreign Security Firm in Gabon.

I, therefore write to give you break down of my life. My dear, I have two
happy days. Happy days are what we worked for. But happy days are not easily
worked for. (tears) my late husband left me without a child. Besides, I was
made to understand that, if a man died without an issue all his wealth will
be shared by the entire relatives in Africa.

From the time immemorial, the tendency of human beings is live to live
together; very few normal human beings live in isolation from their kind.

Therefore consciousness of kind leads to Community living with its own ethos
and taboos. Precisely, my husband had a secret Deposit Worth of $8.9Million
(EIGHT MILLION, NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) with a Security Firm, which I
now demanded your ability/assistance to put up claims of receiving the fund
on your side for safety. Since the money has to be claimed by a non co
naissance.

Dear, I am down with imperialism and tribal division, no sporadically act
nor pious revolution can resolve my present problems and condition. Nothing
will be of avail except one from overseas assisted me and claim this fund
through the help of my husband Attorney in Gabon.

For now I am indisposed and I must depend on a confidant to support and
sustain myself to make my plan work. But tomorrow may be well on the way.
Flying low or high in life depends in God.

My humble duty now is to pray that my wound shall be healed if ever you will
never fail me in the longer days and longer nights.

I await your kind response.

Yours sincerely,

MRS LINDA ELIZABETH MOUNIR
NB PLEASE IN RETURN MAIL; SEND YOUR PHONE NUMBER FOR EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION.

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